individual can adapt to a foreign place he will never be completely integrated there. Thus, because of his human intelligence, Mowgli is able to grow up among the wolf-cubs and gradually understand all the laws of the jungle. He naturally adapts to his environs, but he can never be fully integrated since his intelligence separates him from the animals. This is why eventually he will be cast out from the jungle and re-integrated in the human society to which he actually belongs. The Jungle Book is thus much more than an entertaining story for children; it is an interesting account of the way in which difference is perceived and resolved in a certain society. The fact that Kipling uses the wilderness as a context for the story is important because it places the events is an almost mythical context. The author shows how social order, symbolized here through the animal life, can be disturbed by difference and the lack of a common ground or a common language for understanding.
             Thus, the animals in the book are drawn like full-fledged characters, each with its own personality. Interestingly, Kipling uses the concept of 'law' extensively, to describe the order of the jungle world. As it is well known, traditional ethics regards the jungle as an entirely lawless and disordered place, with no code of its own. It is here that the essence of Kipling's endeavor can be perceived: by siding with a jungle and its primitive world against the civilized human society, the author emphasizes primitivism as a less corrupted and more ethical environment than civilization. Thus, paradoxically, the jungle is introduced as an extremely orderly place, in which each species of animals and each individual member of the species has its own rights and duties. The law of the jungle is obviously a natural and not a moral law, but somehow Kipling sees it as more neutral and less corrupt than that which binds the human society together: "By the L...