Language and Speech in The Jungle Books and The God of Small Things

aw of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning. He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I-I have to kill for two, these days."(Kipling, 33) Here, Kipling places the jungle and the village in stark opposition, showing that the two separate worlds are governed by entirely different laws and ideals: "Umph!" he said, for he had come across more than one such barricade in his night rambles after things to eat. "So men are afraid of the People of the Jungle here also."(Kipling, 41) This becomes evident at the moment when Mowgli is chased away from the jungle, and the animals identify him as an intruder simply because he is a 'man-cub' and does not fit in their own society: "Then more than half the Pack yelled: "A man! A man! What has a man to do with us? Let him go to his own place." "And turn all the people of the villages against us?" clamored Shere Khan. "No, give him to me. He is a man, and none of us can look him between the eyes."(Kipling, 62) It is thus that Mowgli
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