Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) "Tiger! Tiger!" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to "Mowgli's Brothers", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in "The Jungle Book" (1894), following "Kaa's Hunting". The title is derived from William Blake's poem "The Tyger". After driving out the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli leaves the wolf pack that has raised him and makes his way to a human village to be with his own (biological) kind. There he is adopted by a bereaved couple, Messua and her husband, due to his resemblance to their
Rudyard Kipling fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which were collected as "A Fleet in Being". On a visit to the United States in 1899, Kipling and Josephine developed pneumonia, from which she eventually died. In the wake of his daughter's death, Kipling concentrated on collecting material for what would become "Just So Stories for Little Children." That work was published in 1902, the year after "Kim" was first issued. The American literary scholar David Scott has argued that "Kim" disproves the claim made by Edward Said about Kipling as a promoter of Orientalism as