Tiger! Tiger!

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"Tiger! Tiger!" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling that follows Mowgli’s return to human society and his final confrontation with the tiger Shere Khan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story
work of fiction
antagonistSpecies Bengal tiger
author Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
collection Mowgli stories
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Buldeo NERFINISHED
Grey Brother NERFINISHED
Messua NERFINISHED
Mowgli NERFINISHED
Shere Khan NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn New York NERFINISHED
follows "Kaa's Hunting" NERFINISHED
genre adventure fiction
children's literature
hasAdaptation film adaptations of The Jungle Book
stage adaptations of The Jungle Book
television adaptations of The Jungle Book
hasIllustrationBy Paul Frenzeny NERFINISHED
W. H. Drake NERFINISHED
hasMoralDimension exploration of human versus animal law
includedIn various editions of The Jungle Book
intendedAudience children
general readers
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainAntagonist Shere Khan NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Mowgli NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus Mowgli's confrontation with Shere Khan
Mowgli's return to human society
originalPublicationDate 1893
originalPublicationMedium St. Nicholas Magazine NERFINISHED
partOf The Jungle Book NERFINISHED
precedes "Letting in the Jungle" NERFINISHED
protagonistSpecies human
publisher The Century Company NERFINISHED
relatedWork "Mowgli's Brothers" NERFINISHED
"Tiger! Tiger!" chapter in some Jungle Book editions
series The Jungle Book stories NERFINISHED
setting Indian jungle
Indian village
theme belonging
conflict between nature and civilization
identity
revenge
titleOrigin line from William Blake's poem "The Tyger"

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling containsStory Tiger! Tiger!
subject surface form: The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book containsStory Tiger! Tiger!