What is the most important purpose of the narrator in this excerpt?
Read the following excerpt from The Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything
without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except
when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and
then he must hunt outside the hunting-grounds of his
pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing
means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on
elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with
gongs and rockets and torches. Then everybody in the
jungle suffers. The reason the beasts give among
themselves is that Man is the weakest and most
defenseless of all living things, and it is
unsportsmanlike to touch him. They say too-and it is
true-that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their
teeth
O to explain that human beings are the weakest of all
the animals in the jungle
O to explain why Shere Khan will kill a human being
instead of another animal
O to explain why the animals of the jungle typically do
not kill human beings
O to explain how seriously all of the animals take the
Law of the Jungle
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