Tarzan of the Apes

John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke of England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. After an unstated amount of time later, their son John Clayton II is born.[2] At the age of one, his mother dies and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape, Kerchak. The infant Clayton, subsequently adopted by the she-ape Kala, is named Tarzan (''White Skin'' in the ape language) and is raised in ignorance of his human heritage.As a boy, feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, Tarzan discovers his true parents'' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books. Using basic primers with pictures, over many years he teaches himself to read English, but having never heard it, cannot speak it.Upon his return from one visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a huge gorilla whom he manages to kill with his father''s knife, although he is terribly wounded in the struggle. As he