Compare And Contrast The Jungle Book

The bestselling children’s book The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 and is still being enjoyed by book lovers of all ages. The book is about a toddler who escapes the presence of a killer and finds refuge in a nearby graveyard. He is raised by many different characters and personalities both living and dead in the graveyard. Unfortunately, another topic is creating a buzz about this novel other than its’ awards. The Graveyard Book is being called out because of its many similarities of the much older and equally popular novel The Jungle Book. The author of The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, doesn’t deserve all of the credit for his bestselling novel because he took the plot and many key characters from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The Jungle Book was a book that was published around 1900. This book is not to be confused with Disney’s translation of the story in the form of an animated movie. It has many difference especially with specific character traits. The Jungle Book is essentially a combination of several short stories that feature a boy named Mowgli who is raised by wolves and mentored by a bear and encounters multiple problems that include monkeys. Even in the one sentence of summary of the book someone could find a similarity of the two books. Not to mention the covers of the two book, The
That seems to ring a bell. In The Graveyard Book gives the reader a character to rally around with Bod coming up against all odds and being raised by these people of the graveyard both alive and dead. This sequence is implausible yet interestingly exhilerating. This is the first parallel that Gaiman noticeably take from Kipling. Kipling uses the same fundamentals in his writing with his writings with the idea of Mowgli being raised and mentored by wolves and finding wisdom from a bear. Neil Gaiman has recycles these ideas for his own novel which doesn’t seem right with the amount of awards he has received for the