The Jungle Book Analysis

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If you placed a child in the jungle all alone, what would become of him? Would the child be consumed, or would the animals raise him as one of their own? Jon Favreau showed that in the movie The Jungle Book. This movie is about Mowgli’s experience in the jungle after his parents had died while protecting him from a tiger. Abandoned by his father, Mowgli had been raised wolves and had become one himself, but was not completely accepted by the animals inhabiting the jungle. Shere Khan, the tiger that killed off his family wants him dead because Mowgli’s father had ruined one of him eyes during their fight. Because of this, he has to return to his own kind, but on the road, he runs into some difficulties. Mowgli's head and his body in the middle. …show more content…
The transition between this scene and the previous one is a cut. To build suspense a soundtrack is playing in the background. The character I related to the most is Baloo (Bear) I related to Baloo because he pretty chill and kind of lazy. The movies The Jungle Book is similar to are Kung Fu Panda, The Lion King, Home, and Zootopia. All the movies listed have the same plot because they all have a character that does not belong, but that character proves themselves useful in the end. The most unfamiliar element in the whole movie is probably the setting. The setting is the most unfamiliar because it is a jungle environment; none of the movies I listed was in a jungle setting. While watching this movie the emotions I experienced throughout the movie was anticipation and exhilaration. I was feeling those feelings because a tiger was hunting Mowgli and I wanted to know what would happen to him. At the end of the movie, I asked myself do all animals have a language and if they do then do they all animals speak the same language. I don’t think that I had to change the view of myself or of the world. After the movie I thought to myself that was a good

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