Rudyard Kipling's Kim: A Timeless Tale of Identity and Adventure

Rudyard Kipling 

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) had to bear for posterity an unequal qualification as writer of adventure novels that would be better suitable for a young audience rather than the adult one because of his relegation to the disgraceful category of emblematic writer of the British empire. 

However, his popularity has not diminished over the years but has evolved and the endless complexities of Kipling's narrative work have been enjoyed by a much better trained reading community. The novel masterfully handle the eternal quest of mankind for the spirituality and his own identity. We found that our hero is lack of his own identity and looking for where he belong to. 

Like Stevenson, Kipling was not forgiven or could interpret numerous readings in his books with nuanced simplicity. The reader will find layers of context inside a novel like Kim (1901). It is clear that young people are able to read this novel quickly and funky, however specifically in this lies the grandeur of this work: that it can be grasped by all kinds of people and that you can receive a particular satisfaction, but a pleasurable satisfaction according to their age, their experience as a reader and their aesthetic requirements. In the picaresque chain of novels which Defoe and Fielding had as maximum fans in the English literature, Kim is an excellent link. 

Rudyard Kipling 

In that sense the ingredients are served from the first pages: a child named Kimball O'Hara lives in a city in India, orphaned by a mother from birth, and orphaned by a father later in his life who served as a sergeant to an Irish regiment based in India. The actions of the boy who lives by making nightly sights in love to couples, though, cannot be seen from European origins. Kim's way of life in the city has its origins in oriental mentality and is known as the "Friend of the whole World"  Due to the diplomatic struggle between the Russian Empire and the British Empire, he learns the so called Great Game. Fortunately he gets a British commission to send a letter in Ambala to the British commander.

In response the chaplain of the regiment of Kim's father discovered that Kim belonged to Freemasonry, finding that he was wearing the mason's mark around his neck and pressuring him to split from the lama. But the lama persuade him that it is better for him and Kim is eventually placed to study at a prestigious British academy, which is funded by the lama, in the city of Lucknow. His life will change when he meets an old Tibetan lama. 

He admires the old man a little different from the rogue, who usually benefits by who his boss is. His admiration is a bit different. Fortunately it's not here but the picaresque drives along other paths: Kim supposes he's a clever priest, but he's really good to cope with the world, and the money and food from where your journey is going are necessary. In fact, the lama thinks the Lord sent the boy to him as a reference to his work: the search for a sacred river where he purifies his soul. 

The old man's fantasy was that river. The young man also has a goal. Time passes and Kim keeps up with the lama for whom the boy remains fond. Kim also remained in touch with the UK Secret Service, and on holidays, Lurgan Sahib, the jeweller who also serves as a British agent in the city of Simla, is recruited and trained for spying by Kim. A visual memory exercise called The Jewel Game is part of the education. Kim receives a government job after three years' training, from where he starts working at The Great Game, but before he has a well-deserved break in the process. 

There is a marked oriental accent on the approach of history, because the two friends, an old man and a child, choose to travel the country on a predetermined road, moved by mere superstition, by dreams and prophets. Given the brilliance of Kim, the British spy service uses it to convey messages from one place to another in India to complicate things a little more. 

There is a marked oriental accent on the approach of history, because the two friends, an old man and a child, choose to travel the country on a predetermined road, moved by mere superstition, by dreams and prophets. Given the brilliance of Kim, the British spy service uses it to convey messages from one place to another in India to complicate things a little more. Much will be done in its development because the dynamism and pleasure of this work are one of the essential characteristics, so that the episodes will happen continuously. This force of narration and plot could lead us to think that we face an adventure story, but whoever stops reading this harsh story will be wrong.

Kim has a lovely and moving story of friendship, which lacks so much literature. Two characters, one young and one old, one inexperienced and one ingenious, one clever, and one seasoned, have completely different characters. This relation of opposites will bear complementarily. One needs the other out of admiration and allegiance, not out of mere personal interests. The book is not a moment where one partner is manipulating the other and even though they're not really physically close, even from a distance they're always real. 

Whilst some believe differently, Kim is a novel that reveals distinctly Eastern thought, and it is not precisely to applaud their mindset while Western characters seem to be present. Kipling has found the main hurdles, while certain values may have a common character, to recognize this work in this defence of oriental values.

Rudyard Kipling was an ambitious writer and his novels ought to be discussed on this premise. Some may be nerdy or nostalgic, but I don't think this book includes a single passage, which might prove this. Kipling had the skills to escape the easy, and exactly what he does in this novel is to prove that a quick-story can even be made with Spiritual Quest and Quest for home in this Kipling’s Novel, the protagonist successfully achieved it.

Discover the enduring appeal of Rudyard Kipling's classic novel, Kim. Explore the complex themes of identity, spirituality, and friendship as young Kim embarks on a journey of self-discovery across India. From its picaresque narrative to its insightful exploration of Eastern philosophy, Kim offers a captivating and thought-provoking reading experience for all ages.

Keywords: Rudyard Kipling, Kim, postcolonial literature, adventure novel, identity, spirituality, friendship, India, colonialism, imperialism, Eastern philosophy, picaresque novel