“Kim” – By Rudyard Kipling

About Author:

Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Rudyard Kipling was an English author famous for an array of works like 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book.' He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Rudyard Kipling is writing about India during the period of British colonial domination at the turn of the twentieth century. Kipling's India includes a huge mix of people from different nationalities, ethnic groups and religion.

 Background of the Novel:

This novel takes place in India where many people are in poverty. Including one of them to be Kim himself. He was an orphaned child born to Irish parents that have both died. Also since Kim is white man the book does include some contradictions.

Character list:

1)    Kim: The protagonist of the Novel, this is an adventure story probably aimed primarily at adolescent boys, in which Kim is seeking to find his place in the country in which he was born, while at the same time trying to find an identity for himself.

2)   Lama:  A Tibetan Lama – abbot of the such Zen monastery in the Western Himalayas, on a spiritual journey

3)   Mahbub Ali -  A famous Pashtu horse trader and spy for the British

4)   Colonial Creighton: British Army Officer, ethnologist and spy

5)   Lurgan Sahib: A Simla gem trader and master spy etc...

Kim in India:

While born to two Irish parents Kim has pale skin. As living in India all of the others have darker skin. Kim, who is an adventure boy wants to find you where he really belongs and who he really is because he really isn't Indian nor is be British. So, Kim is a really intresting boy who has lots of thoughts for his young age.

About the Novel:

As Kim O'Hara, an orphaned kid, lives in poverty he makes his way up into living the best by the help of people in India. Stranded by the two countries he has a hard time to choose his identity of Indian or British, because he is neither. During the first big adventure with the Lama, Kim really gets to know him well. As time goes on, Kim eventually goes to school. While the schooling is funded by the lama. After three years of schooling, Kim was appointed a government offical job. Now to Kim the Lama is his biggest hero for all of his successes that he has accomplished. At last Kim goes under cover to save the Lama because of conficts that occured between the Russians and the Lama. This story really shows how friendship/ heroism can really play a big part in life.

So, This Novel shows how someone living in the deepest parts of there life can be rescued back to happiness and a stanger might be your bestfriend forever and ever. It gives us a perspective of how people in poverty used to live back in the days of the O'Hara times. So, Kim is really nice example of how you can stuggle for your identity, like where you are from and who you are. Its a decison everybody makes in life.