Characters
In alphabetical order:
- Akela – An Indian Wolf
- Bagheera – A melanistic (black) panther
- Baloo— A Sloth Bear
- Bandar-log – A tribe of monkeys
- Chil – A kite (renamed "Rann" in US editions)
- Chuchundra – A Muskrat
- Darzee – A tailorbird
- Father Wolf – The Father Wolf who raised Mowgli as his own cub
- Grey brother – One of Mother and Father Wolf's cubs
- Hathi – An Indian Elephant
- Ikki – An Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (mentioned only)
- Kaa – Indian Python
- Karait – Common Krait
- Kotick – A White Seal
- Mang – A Bat
- Mor – An Indian Peafowl
- Mowgli – Main character, the young jungle boy
- Nag – A male Black cobra
- Nagaina – A female King cobra, Nag's mate
- Raksha – The Mother wolf who raised Mowgli as her own cub
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – An Indian Mongoose
- Sea Catch – A Northern fur seal and Kotick's father
- Sea Cow – A Steller's Sea Cow
- Sea Vitch – A Walrus
- Shere Khan— A Royal Bengal Tiger
- Tabaqui – An Indian Jackal
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)