Even the Jungle and the Dweller Could Talk Deeply (Book Report)

The history of the salt of the jungle represents the values of life. In this story, we can learn the values from “The Monkeys”. It is funny but true. We can imagine how the monkeys have wonderful behaviour, which is

called “The Loyalty”. Yes, because female monkey tried to help her mate after Mr Dieu has shot the male monkey. Furthermore, she tried to resist Mr Dieu. The touching of the story of the monkeys and the theme of loyalty can be a mirror to reflect human life. In this story, we can find the strategic of how they protect the fellows, how they overcome the problems. The salt of the jungle is interesting to be read.

Mr Dieu is the major character in this story. He has an idea to go hunting, when his son gave him a gift. It is a double-barrelled and he is so happy to have it. In the way to hunt, he finds some troubles after he shot the male monkey and the dispute happens because the monkeys feel unsecure, some of them appear from the top of the trees as if they want to stalk the incident. Mr Dieu never thinks tha the monkeys will try to prevent their community or they will try to fight against him. The baby monkey tries to grab the weapon when the shotgun drops to the land and drag it far from the owner. As the story progress, Mr Dieu finally has a guilty feeling. He changes his mind after seeing the monkey dying. He also tries to help the monkey to bandage the wound. 

The interesting thing from the book appears when we know the monkeys’ behaviour. First is the togetherness between the monkeys, they have sense to cover their fellows. The second is the loyalty of the female monkey and it is shown by her actions. It is a good partner in order to face the troubles even the baby monkey has purpose in it. Yes, of course, it is funny, instead, it is just a baby monkey. The last is about the solidarity. When one of the monkeys feels unsecured, they will be hand in hand to cover the members or they will fight against the enemy to protect the groups. This is astonishing action from them. Here, we can compare to the human life, do we have values as they do? Realizing or not, nowadays people are so rare to care each other. People are so busy with their own business and egoism dominates them. The salt of the jungle is another aspect of life where we can learn about life and the values, all of these are so priceless.