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	Feral child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fictional feral children are often depicted as growing up with relatively normal human intelligence and skills and an innate sense of culture or civilisation, coupled with a healthy dose of survival instincts; their integration into human society is made to seem relatively easy.
		Many fictional stories and legends depict feral children and integrate the theme of adoption by animals.
		Feral children may be separated from society by being lost or abandoned into the wild.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_children (1458 words)

	Feral children in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feral children (i.e., children raised by animals) in mythology and fiction are often depicted as having superior strength, intelligence and morals to "normal" people, the implication being that due to their animal upbringing they represent humanity in a wild and uncorrupted state.
		In the book, Mila is taken to a clinic with other feral children, none of whom adapt to humanity as easily as she does.
		The story of the 1994 video game Final Fantasy VI includes a character named Gau, a 14-year-old boy who lives wild on a fictional savanna called the Veldt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feral_children_in_mythology_and_fiction (1078 words)

	Wolf Trust - Wolf Children
		Feral children raised by wolves and other animals is a common theme in legend and fiction but the reality is more peculiar.
		Wolf children are a subset of feral children: children who grow up from a very young age, for a significant period of their lives, with strictly minimal or no human contact, and survive, isolated on their own or somehow adopted by animals.
		Feral children are of interest in themselves and are also fascinating for what we can learn about the early socialisation and development of humans.
	www.wolftrust.org.uk /a-wolfchildren.html (1657 words)

	limyaael: Feral child rant
		Some feral children have learned to speak, but it’s the same kind of struggle that it takes to learn a second language—and with a second language, at least most people have recourse to their first tongue, to compare it to.
		If you want a feral child who has a functional chance of coming back into society, I would say that she needs to be at least five, six, or seven before the wolves adopt her.
		A feral princess would be a disastrous ruler of a country if she was abandoned as an infant.
	www.livejournal.com /users/limyaael/320283.html (4398 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Feral Children
		Feral children are children who have spent much of their formative years in the wild, without any contact with other humans for a significant period of their lives.
		Studies of feral children in the past have lead to breakthroughs in the education of people with learning disabilities, and indirectly has lead to the development of sign-language and Braille.
		Cases of feral children are thankfully rare, but are of immense interest from a scientific and educational point of view.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A269840 (1015 words)

	Mick Broderick- Surviving Armageddon: Beyond the Imagination of Disaster
		The communes they lead are generally comprised of men, women, and children, with monogamous, heterosexual marriage and sustaining/procreating life as the society’s goals (romantic sub-plots involving heroes and women from survival camps motivate action in most of these films).
		The imagery of science fiction films will satisfy the most bellicose addict of war films, for a lot of the satisfaction of war films passes, untransformed, into science fiction films" (31).
		From the early post-Hiroshima films of the ‘40s which anticipated global atomic conflict and the cautionary tales of short and long-term effects in the ‘50s through to the hero myths of apocalypse in the ‘80s, a discernable shift away from an imagination of disaster toward one of survival is evident.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/61/broderick61art.htm (7753 words)

	Interview with Lee Upton
		I've come to need to write fiction now, too, and I think that the genre has its own rewards that no other genre offers in quite the same concentration--that sense of almost casual discovery, the sort of discovery at the level of the scene that differs somehow from work in scenes in poetry.
		Writing longer fiction has allowed me more readily to experiment with different sorts of tones and possibilities and conceptions in all my work, and has even afforded me a greater sense of ease in poetry.
		The pressure on the individual word in fiction isn't the same as in poetry; you have to discipline yourself to tread more lightly so that an almost orchestral effect begins to take shape in fiction.
	www.adirondackreview.homestead.com /interviewupton.html (3274 words)

	FeralChildren.com - Feral Children - in fiction: Tarzan, Mowgli and others
		Of course, the most famous feral children from the world of fiction are Tarzan, raised by apes; and Mowgli, from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, who was raised by wolves.
		Feral children have featured in fiction, legend and mythology since classical times.
		FeralChildren.com - Feral Children - in fiction: Tarzan, Mowgli and others
	www.feralchildren.com /en/fiction.php (478 words)

	FeralChildren.com - Feral Children - Documents online at FeralChildren.com
		Some of the works in languages other than English are general essays or aticles on the subject of feral children, and are placed here for the convenience of non-English speakers.
		This book isn't about the Green Children per se, but one of the characters finds a book about them and becomes obsessed with them.
		Steeves refers to our perceptions of feral children and Bigfoot to discuss exactly what it is to be human.
	www.feralchildren.com /en/listbooks.php?ll=1 (1514 words)

	Articles - Romulus and Remus
		Romulus and Remus are among the most famous Feral children in mythology and fiction.
		Let them know, and teach their children, that no power on earth can stand against Roman arms.
		As they grew, their noble birth showed itself in their size and beauty while they were still children.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Romulus_and_Remus (3607 words)

	Mowgli - FreeEncyclopedia
		Mowgli was also a probable influence on at least two other "wild boy" characters; see Feral Children in Mythology and Fiction.
		Mowgli is a fictional character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh", which was collected in Many Inventions (1893).
		Although marketed as a children's book it is really a dark psychological drama, and ends with the violent death of a major character.
	openproxy.ath.cx /mo/Mowgli.html (983 words)

	L.C. Subject Headings Weekly List 47 (November 19, 2003)
		CANCEL * 680 Here are entered fiction films produced especially for children.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/cpso/wls03/awls0347.html (98 words)

	feral - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include feral: feral man, feral pigeon, feral child, feral children, feral children in mythology and fiction
		This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news.
		Words similar to feral: savage, untamed, beastly, undomesticated, wild, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=feral&loc=wotd (238 words)

	PRINCE OF WALES LIBRARY: FICTION AND READING
		Children in the Coram Hospital fared much better than other orphans, but life is still pretty grim and full of danger.
		Seven children remain after a plague wipes out all the adults and most of the children die of hunger and disease.
		In this science fiction novel Ember is threatened when the lights that keep away the darkness begin to fade.
	pw.vsb.bc.ca /library/reading.html (12325 words)

	Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life quiz
		I continue with four questions to address feral children in literature: two from modern fiction, two from medieval romance (thus leaving out entirely the classical period, fairy tales, Persian literature, and the medieval Scandinavian works, all of which provide good examples of children with 'animal nurses').
		Is truth stranger than fiction?) True or false, there is a documented case of a she-leopard hunting, capturing and rearing a human child to replace cubs she had recently lost?
		Kamala and Amala, perhaps the most widely known feral children to have come to the attention of modern science, were raised by what animals until found by the Reverend J. Singh in 1920?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=68107&origin= (589 words)

	New Books for Young Readers - Adolescent
		When Coraline discovers that more children are trapped, as well as her real parents, she realizes that it is up to her to save them all.
		This realistically told science fiction tale, written from Bobby's point of view, is a beautifully crafted, humorous story about growing up.
		Tension between parents and children, between fellow employees, new ways of fighting fires, and two mild love interests make this a highly readable story.
	education.umn.edu /CI/NBFYR/advanced.html (8885 words)

	Complete bibliography
		Children's Literature Association Quarterly 26.1 (Spring 2001) is a special issue devoted to the "golden age" of children's literature—the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
		Children's Literature Association Quarterly 22.1 (Spring 1997), edited by Anne Morey, is a special issue on the historical and ideological contexts of children's media texts.
		The relationships between children's literature and popular culture are also the subject of special sections in the Spring 1982 Children's Literature Association Quarterly, in the Summer 1987 Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and of the articles in Lion and the Unicorn 11.2 (1987).
	io.uwinnipeg.ca /~nodelman/resources/citations.html (15514 words)

	The Whale-Watching-Web: Cetacean Children's Bibliography--Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Resources
		Children are fascinated by Stormy because they can relate to the drama of being separated from one's mother and are in awe of the brutal shark attack.
		Cetacean video titles for children from the National Geographic Society, Walt Disney, and other sources appear in the Cetacean Videography, and cetacean songs and taped stories for children (most of which are marked "For children") appear in the Cetacean Audiography.
		Other fictional vignettes like the latter are combined with nonfiction accounts of the behavior and threatened status of several species of whales.
	www.helsinki.fi /~lauhakan/whale/literature/children/biblioc.html (14637 words)

	Learn more about Tarzan in the online encyclopedia.
		Tarzan is a modern incarnation of the ancient literary tradition of "the hero raised by animals" (Feral children).
		Other examples are Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, and the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus (raised by wolves).
		Many of the Hollywood Tarzan films from the 1930s on featured Tarzan's chimpanzee companion Cheeta.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ta/tarzan.html (650 words)

	Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
		A children’s tale like The Little Red Hen, for example, contains virtually no loanwords.
		However, the inherited vocabulary, though now numerically a small proportion of the total, remains the genuine core of the language; all of the 100 words shown to be the most frequent in the Corpus of Present-Day American English, also known as the Brown Corpus, are native words; and of the second 100, 83 are native.
	www.bartleby.com /61/8.html (9441 words)

	Topic: The Science Fiction of Skin and Bones
		While Science Fiction can function as social commentary and stories dealing with social order can be a way of critiquing self and society, royal characters can also be simply the stuff of fantasy and romance.
		Science Fiction in the 1950s was obsessed with radioactivity and the atomic bomb.
		According to Skin and Bones, Cadmium X is a residual element (identified in the narration as an isotope of Cadmium) left in the bodies of murder victims killed by aliens (specifically those bodies with silver palm prints as well as Pierce's bones).
	www.geocities.com /LizMyth2001/scifiSaB.html (23006 words)

	Ferret Friendly Facts and Advice by Erika Matulich
		Young children and babies may not have sufficient motor skills to control their physical encounters with a pet, and squeezing and hitting are common actions.
		I hope this article has helped dispel some of the more common misconceptions, but always be prepared for the next interesting piece of ferret fiction!
		There are many more ferret fables, some extending from children’s literature, mythology, and superstitions.
	www.cypresskeep.com /Ferretfiles/Myths-FUSA.htm (3136 words)

	Mad Max, Mythology and the Millennium
		As Max and the children liberate Pigkiller and Master from the Underworld, reversing their earlier exchange Max asks Pigkiller enthusiastically, "What's the plan?" to which he replies anarchically that there is none, symbolically demonstrating the crucial aspect of apocalyptic eschaton - the radical rupturing of the old linear, cosmological order.
		To strengthen the metaphor, the children are shown the application for their 'sonic' (a warped old vinyl record) placed on Master's gramophone.
		Quite often in mythology the journey-quest of the hero may lead to social inertia rather than rebirth, with the hero failing to pass on his knowledge or skills to the community.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /~mickbrod/postmodm/m/text/madmax.html (5748 words)

	Outpost.com Warner Bros. (DVD)
		Some of the children, refusing to believe that Max isn't Walker and that the glorious cities of their mythology no longer exist, set off in search of civilization on their own.
		Despite his newfound scruples -- sparing the life of a gladiator with Down's syndrome and aiding a band of feral children -- Mel Gibson's titular protagonist is still an engagingly gritty hero.
		George Miller, writer/director of the first two films, teams with co-director George Ogilvie for the most visually elaborate entry in the series, delineating his film's competing post-apocalyptic societies with a deftness and density that other science fiction storytellers should study.
	www.outpost.com /product/1039573 (696 words)

	Science Fiction and Fantasy Films: Articles and Books in the UC Berkeley Library
		In such recent science fiction films as Blade Runner (1982), Robocop (1987), Cherry 2000 (1988), and Total Recall (1990), robots symbolize contemporary man's struggle to reclaim his humanity in the face of repressive forces.
		Abstract: "In her paper, "Science Fiction, Forbidden Planet, and Shakespeare's The Tempest," Simone Caroti illustrates the way in which Cyril Hume and Fred Wilcox's 1956 science fiction movie Forbidden Planet -- whose plot is inspired by Shakespeare's Tempest -- reconfigures in Shakespeare's play.
		During the 1950's, the Hollywood science fiction film helped resolve the contradiction in American society between the desirability of change and the retention of existing values and beliefs.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/scifibib.html (12794 words)

	The Looking Glass - Vol. 8, No. 3 - Alice's Academy
		Most feral children are boys who are raised by animal stepmothers and who struggle with fathers or father surrogates, in keeping with the motif's oedipal thematics.
		Folklore scholar Michael P. Carroll claims that "viewing contemporary reports [of feral children] as projections of the Oedipal fantasies explains several things," chiefly the usually female gender of the animal parent and her identity as a carnivore (78).
		As I've shown in my book Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale, stories of feral children, or feral tales, abound in world mythology and folklore and continue to flourish in our own time, surfacing not just in literature and popular culture but also in scientific and academic discourse.
	www.the-looking-glass.net /rabbit/v8i3/alice.html (4057 words)

	TF Seeker's Sightings - The Furcyclopedia Transformica - A -
		Such feral children have turned up from time to time, adding to the myth, but they are human, and were apparently isolated and raised outside of human circles.
		Some stories involve abductions, where children are taken to be transformed into wild men themselves.
		A common theme across the world of a feral humanoid, usually male, that exists in the wild.
	tfseeker.tfcentral.com /D-FT/W-X.html (1275 words)

	Neil Easterbrook- The Arc of Our Destruction: Reversal and Erasure in Cyberpunk
		And yet both Case and Molly are given psychological "excuses": they have been abused as children and have matured in a society whose human values have been eclipsed by technology’s power (see especially §12:155).
		This gap is immediately apparent even in cursory readings of the fiction, especially in the text Sterling identifies as "surely the quintessential cyberpunk novel" (xiv), William Gibson’s remarkable Neuromancer.
		Despite the rhetoric of resistance, Case loves the ecstatic feral intensity of treating the mind as meat; he openly prefers the way things are, prefers to live parasitically as a criminal stealing data as opportunities permit, prefers to exist in a way possible only by offering obeisance to the status quo.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/58/easterbrook58art.htm (6302 words)

	Fishboy
		The title character is a British boy who was abandoned on a desert island as a baby and survived as a feral child by learning to breathe underwater and talk to fish and other sea creatures.
		The strip follows his adventures as a teenager as he travels the world's oceans searching for his long-lost parents and helping people in trouble.
		He also developed webbed fingers and toes which gave him the ability to swim as fast as a motorboat.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fishboy.htm (225 words)

	Dog Lovers Bookshop: Fiction and Literature
		Blount, Margaret Animal Land: The Creatures of Children's Fiction New York: Avon, 1977.
		Fiction by a wide range of authors; some poetry and an introduction by the editors.
		Children's fable of a dog and his encounters with Jack and Jill, Little Boy Blue, and other beloved characters.
	www.dogbooks.com /lit.htm (6769 words)

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