KIPLING - THE 2ND JUNGLE BOOK

- Kipling questions empire as monolithic political system
- ambiguous comedy - irony
-unbearable pathos in 'spring running'
kiddies books only coming 'in' in the 1890s
-celebration of a childhood
- Absence of didactic moral message - illustrated though characterisation & incident
-EMPHASIS ON PHYSIQUE & RESPECT FOR DISCIPLINE
- parallel with changing notion of 'boyhood' in late victorian period

OUTSIDER

FERAL CHILD- remus (metamorphosis)

TRICKSTER - odysseus, tom sawyer, puss in boots,v. different from previous child protagonists ie Dickens' good, innocent kids.