Book excerpt: This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling contains all of his verse.

This book was released on 1994 with total page 932 pages. The Keeper Of The Images At The Wonder House (a.k.a. Download or read book The Works of Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Wordsworth Editions.It is strange' (15.13).ĭo you notice a difference in the way that Kim behaves at the beginning of the book and at the end? Why does it matter that the lama no longer forgets that Kim is a Sahib? But near the end of their travels together, the lama reflects: 'Now I look upon thee often, and every time I remember that thou art a Sahib. The lama also points out that, at the start of their time together, he often couldn't tell-or didn't remember-Kim's ethnic identity as a white person. Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. We aren't the only ones who notice this change in Kim's racial identity over the course of the novel. Xavier's appears to have taught him the advantages of being a Sahib in India, as opposed to his younger days.

What gives Kim the authority to talk to the Babu this way? It comes from the first sentence in this passage: 'I am a Sahib.' Kim is actually pulling racial rank here, which he would never have done in the beginning of the novel.

Yet Kim basically tells the Babu to cut the crap and say outright what he is doing here seeking out Kim and the lama. Kim is only seventeen (much younger than the Babu) and also 'subordinate to departmentally at present,' as the Babu puts it so formally.

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