The Jungle Book · Character
Toomai
A mahout's small son who scrambles up stockade-posts and yells with the best of the drivers, he dreams of seeing what no man has seen.
major
Also known as Little Toomai
First appearance: Toomai of the Elephants
As a major figure in The Jungle Book, Toomai is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Little Toomai, son of Big Toomai, rides Kala Nag and witnesses the elephant dance.
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Little Toomai is the boy of the elephant-camp, useful as three men in the keddah and happiest when the hills smoke with rain and nobody knows where they will camp that night. His father Big Toomai wants the flat roads…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Elephant keddah operators
- Mowgli's mentors and allies
- Protagonist
- Jungle and domestic friends
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Closing
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See Toomai in Toomai of the Elephants