Kim: By Rudyard Kipling

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Other Books by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling wrote many books including:

Captains Courageous
Danny Deever
Kim
Lispeth
Recessional
The Brushwood Boy
The Gardener
The Hyenas
The Man Who Would Be King
The Poetry of Kipling
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The White Man's Burden
The Wish House
They
Thrown Away

Here are there Summaries:

http://www.enotes.com/authors/rudyard-kipling

Organizations Related to the Book

Through out the book, Kim encounters many racial aspects. The British, who are in control, disrespect the Indians for there skin color and cultural views. Even within the social caste system of India there were racial problems. The lowest social class was the Untouchables. This class was despised by anyone who wasn't an Untouchable. This Organization fights racism, a big problem found in Kim. They fight it by putting on presentations to show hoe horrible racism is. http://world-trust.org/seminars/?gclid=CL-k4qaEzbQCFSTZQgodCBIAxQ

Kim

Kim otherwise known as Kimball O'Hara is the protagonist of the story. He was an orphaned son of an Irish Soldier and a Kim was a poor white, the poorest of the poor. A young boy who is a vagabond in the streets of Lahore, begging for food, living off of his own ability to work for supplies. Occasionally worked for the Lahore Museum. He comes upon a Tibetan Lama, who in the end he will cherish forever. Kim goes through many life changing journeys, including missions to help the Great Game by working and going to school through the British. He even occasionally works for Muhbab Ali. Once he and the lama find the river of Enlightenment, Kim is left to decide if he wants to take a spiritual route or take a military route. You yourself are to find out!!

Reference Page

Critical Review of the Book:
"There is a fine antidote to all manner of morbidness in the brilliant pages of Kim":
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1901/12/kim-by-rudyard-kipling/306592/

Biography of the Author:

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers. His literary career began with Departmental Ditties (1886), but subsequently he became chiefly known as a writer of short stories. A prolific writer, he achieved fame quickly. Kipling was the poet of the British Empire and its yeoman, the common soldier, whom he glorified in many of his works, in particular Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1888), collections of short stories with roughly and affectionately drawn soldier portraits. His Barrack Room Ballads (1892) were written for, as much as about, the common soldier. In 1894 appeared his Jungle Book, which became a children's classic all over the world. Kim (1901), the story of Kimball O'Hara and his adventures in the Himalayas, is perhaps his most felicitous work. Other works include The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), Actions and Reactions (1909), Debits and Credits (1926), Thy Servant a Dog (1930), and Limits and Renewals (1932). During the First World War Kipling wrote some propaganda books. His collected poems appeared in 1933.

Kipling was the recipient of many honorary degrees and other awards. In 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, which only Scott, Meredith, and Hardy had been awarded before him.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/kipling-bio.html

Summary of the Book

The book takes place in 1881, right after the Second Afghan War ended. It starts with a boy named Kim, also known as Kimball O'Halla. He is an orphan living in the streets of Lahore, India under British rule. His life consists of begging and doing jobs to gain his living. While living in the city as a vagabond, Kim finds and befriends a Tibetan Lama. He agrees to travel with the lama to escape constant reincarnation by finding a legendary river, The River of the Arrow. Throughout the journey Kim stumbles upon many cultures, religions and the life of the streets in Bazaars. He also stumbles upon something called the Great Game and ends up becoming recruited by Mahbub Ali. His mission is to carry a message to the head of British Intellegence in Umballa. While on his way with the lama, Kim runs into his father's regimental chaplain. Kim is taken from the lama by force and the lama thought it would be a good idea to go because it would help Kim. Kim is sent to a top English School in Lucknow. While there the lama funds for Kim's schooling there. Kim stays in contact with him and grows to love him. Kim also stays in contact with his secret service and is trained to be a surveyor while on vacation from school by Lurgan Sahbib, at his jewelry shop in Simla.

After Kim has been at school for 3 years Kim receives a break and reunites with the lama at the behest of Kim's superior, Hurree Chunder Mookherjee. Together they all take a trip to the Himalayas. While there the lama unfortunately falls into conflict with Russian agents. Kim obtains maps, papers, and other important items from Russians working to undermine British control of the region. Mookherjee ends up under cover with the Russians, he makes sure that the Russians don't go looking for what Kim stole. Kim then rescues the lama from the Russians with the help from some porters and villagers. The lama then realizes the river he is looking for is not in the mountains but in the plains. There the lama and Kim are brought back to health, Kim gives the Russian documents to Hurree, and Mahbub Ali comes to check on Kim. In the end the lama achieves Enlightenment and you are left to wonder what Kim will do with his future, whether it be spiritual or the road of the Great Game.