Ah, some days I wish I'd had her foresight.ĥ) Jane doesn't teach Tarzan to speak, either. Turns out, once Jane thinks about it she's not entirely convinced that the long-term ramifications of marrying a guy who eats raw meat with his hands will be bliss. Overall, he's a decent fellow.Ĥ) He doesn't get the girl! Not right away and not in this book. He is, unbeknownst to both of them, Tarzan's cousin and rival for Jane's affections, and he does say a few shitty things one time when he gets jealous. <-completely stupid on my part, but I know I can't be the only one!ģ) Clayton isn't a bad guy. I don't know why, but I always thought he just wrestled them to death. He relies on a rope to choke those bitches out, a knife he found so he can stab them, and poison arrows that he steals from a village. So they're not friends, he was just the badass who killed the last leader of the apes and earned their respect.Ģ) He doesn't kill predators with his hands alone. He's bored with their shit and wants to find some white dudes to hang out with. From the different media representations I'd seen, I was under the impression he was chummy with his jungle pals well into adulthood. Turns out, there were a lot of things I didn't know about this story.ġ) Tarzan doesn't actually like to hang out with the apes. Oh, and did you know that Tarzan has something like 24 books in his series? I didn't! I thought it was one book with a couple of spin-off tales. And I know this is so wrong but my immediate thought was that there was no way he hadn't fucked a monkey before he met her. But a tad unrealistic that once he saw her, he simultaneously felt something stirring for the first time within him. It was cute that he fell in love with Jane instantaneously. In fact, he has so much of that amazing bloodline running through his veins that he teaches himself to read and write with the leftover books he found in his parents' treehouse.Īnnnnnd to top it all off, he's the most handsome guy on the planet -not some scarred-up bitch with cracked teeth and lice. Why? Because aristocrats make the smartest babies. He becomes the alpha predator of the jungle, easily killing lions and apes with his superman muscles and aristocratic reasoning. It's.bad.Īnd then you have to try not to laugh too hard at the batshit reasons Burroughs gives to explain how Tarzan survived this wildman experience, without becoming either instantly dead or completely feral. You just have to be prepared to cringe because there's a lot of just insultingly weird portrayals of anyone who isn't white. Truthfully, Burroughs' classic didn't age particularly well, but it was still an interesting read. I've seen multiple movies but I've never read the real stories, so I thought it was high time to remedy that. I don't know about you, but when I think of Tarzan, I see that classic image of him swinging through the trees and hear that crazy yodel-scream thing he did.
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