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Feral Children - College Term Papers

Feral Children

are those said to have been nurtured and reared by
animals in the wild. Children who have wandered off and survived on their
own and children who have been deliberately deprived of human contact may
also be described as feral. These children are of interest to the
scientific community because they may shed light on the origins of language
and on the interrelation of culture and biology. There have been more than
40 recorded cases of children being reared by animals, from a 14th-century
Hessian wolf child to such 20th-century cases as a gazelle boy in the
Western Sahara and a wolf boy in Sultanpur, India. Most of the evidence
for these cases, however, has been second-hand and lacking in ...

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seen them living with the
wolves. Although the children developed some social skills and the
rudiments of language, they never became completely normal, and they died
young. There is, however, no way of knowing to what extend their
limitations were a result of cultural deprivation.
Fictionalized accounts of feral children have recurred throughout
history, from the legend of ROMULUS AND REMUS to the more recent fictions
of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's JUNGLE BOOK (1894) and TARZAN OF THE APES in
several works by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They have been the themes of the
films The Wild Child (1970) by Francois Truffault and The Mystery of Kaspar
Hauser (1974) by Werner Herzog. The latter, derived from the novel by
Jakob Wasserman, is also based on a true case. ...

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Added: 5/23/2004 07:52:31 AM
Category: English
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