Tarzan Of The Apes

Tarzan of the Apes was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and this was printed in 1914 as a novel. John and Alice Rutherford Clayton are deserted on the west coast of Africa with their infant son John. Johns mother dies and his father is killed by Kerchak the king ape and John is taken in by Kala his ape mother. She renames him Tarzan and takes care as her son. Later the son discovers his fathers knife and uses it to become King of Apes. As a man he experiences humans again when an expedition of white men comes into the jungle. Tarzan also makes friends with DArnot a naval officer who teaches him to act like a normal man and also teaches him how to speak French and later English. This is the story of a man who is nurtured in the African jungle by a tribe of apes.