# XIX: Diana of the Jungle explained — Tarzan the Terrible

> Chapter companion for Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

## What happens

Jane makes her first kill, a hare, and successfully creates fire using volcanic glass. She builds a treehouse for safety and encounters the German officer Obergatz, who has gone mad. She threatens to kill him if he enters her domain again.

## Themes in this chapter

### Survival and Adaptation

Jane demonstrates resourcefulness by making fire, building a shelter, and hunting for food, adapting to the jungle.

### Gender and Agency

Jane asserts her independence and authority, threatening Obergatz and defending her territory.

## Character check-ins

### Jane Clayton

Makes her first kill, creates fire, builds a treehouse, and confronts Obergatz.

### Erich Obergatz

Appears filthy and mad, confronts Jane at the ford, and is threatened by her.

### Tarzan

Referenced as the source of Jane's woodcraft and survival skills.

## Key lines

> Jane had made her first kill and she was very proud of it. It was not a very formidable animal—only a hare; but it marked an epoch in her existence.

Jane killed a hare, her first hunt, and felt it was a significant milestone in her survival.

_Highlights Jane's transition to a hunter._

> She had achieved fire! She piled on twigs and then larger branches and at last dragged a small log to the flames and pushed an end of it into the fire which was crackling merrily.

Jane successfully started a fire using a convex piece of volcanic glass and dry tinder.

_Demonstrates Jane's ingenuity and mastery of primitive skills._

> Go away and leave me to enjoy here what peace I may. It is the least that you can do to amend the wrong that you have done me and mine.

Jane orders Obergatz to leave her alone, blaming him for her suffering.

_Shows Jane's assertiveness and resentment toward Obergatz._

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