2007-03-07 17:46:56 · 7 answers · asked by kunde. 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If he was any other race, how could he go back to his "civilized" society? That's the point of the book. Not the boy raised by animals in the jungle, but the "fish out of water" when he is rediscovered.
I mean in no way to imply that white society is the only civilized one, just that the colonial attitudes of the time this was written saw it that way. I suppose if a Chinese baby was lost in the African jungle, raised by exotic animals, and returned to China as a man, the story might be similar.
Write an alternate version. That is popular with fairy tales right now, I think you found a market niche. It could be a series!
2007-03-08 00:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure ! Anybody could. Why not ? Question is, why would you want to ? TARZAN could be representative of anyone who wanted to shun society and live Au Natural
2007-03-08 02:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by t24 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont thinks so, since in the original story he is the son of a British Lord and Lady... and at the time when the story was written i dont think there is coloured Lord or Lady... so tarzan is a white male...
2007-03-10 00:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by ieja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well his parents where from England and in the original book he and his parents were white so.......no
2007-03-07 18:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Shadow Lark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you make Jane another color too!!
2007-03-07 18:33:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ready 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a colonial fantasy, not much more than racist trash....
2007-03-07 20:09:03 · answer #6 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not.
2007-03-08 04:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by Sun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋