In Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book', how was Kaa the Python related to Mowgli the Man-Cub?

Kaa was an enormous Indian python with a length of 30 feet. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa was Mowgli's trusted mentor and friend who was ever ready to help Mowgli whenever he was in trouble. In stark contrast, Walt Disney did not like the idea of a benevolent snake and thus featured Kaa as Mowgli's enemy in his version (1967). There, Kaa tried to eat Mowgli but his attempts always ended in comical failure.

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chipdhf

Yes, many times the book is far different from the movie

David Holmes

Some film makers just can't leave the story as it is.

Richard G Schwartz

Just had to stereotype the poor creature.

james parrillo

Lynne Zeman, I have heard the expression of: What was the relationship between these two people? Aristotle was Plato's student comes to mind. Thank you, Christine James's wife

Doris Dallaire

It’s fiction! Ian Bratt,

Bad Nora

Darlene Davidson, I know - think of The Little Mermaid. That real story was not exactly a bouncy, happy tale. Pretty Grimm I'd say!

Jerry Edwards

Karen S. Wolf, Nope I'm trying to relate to you but I can't.

John W Shreve

Darlene Davidson, That's why Disney was a failure.

Lynne Zeman

A mentor is not necessarily a relation. Can be - but not always.

filmnut

I have always identified with “Shere Khan” the “King Tiger”. More so now that my right hip was replaced leaving me some what crippled. A crippled tiger becomes a “mean-eater” by necessity at first . . . then they acquire a taste for human flesh. To them it tastes a lot like pork.