In his adventurous journeys, Kim comes across the army regiment that his father had belonged to, gains some interest in it, and approaches the Colonel. This is after Kim meets a lama man who was in dire need to find a sacred river and he decides to accompany him all over the subcontinent. The author uses Kim to show us the many people and cultures that constitute India’s population. Kim realizes that there is a need to become part of the majority community and so he opts to behave as a native by learning various cultural and religious concepts of the different people in India. Due to his status, he grows up by himself in the streets of India with some support of a woman who is half-caste. As earlier mentioned, the story revolved around an orphan Irish boy. Its setting is in India while it was still under the British Empire. The novel describes various events that took place at around the time of the novel’s publications. The third level on the other hand is the novel as a mystic unfolding of a behavior pattern as portrayed by the characters and the community of discussion (Kipling 11). In the second level, we see the book as a drama of a little boy who entirely has his own way of life and doing things just to make life worth living. First, we can consider the novel to be a story of adventure as we see the main character going to different places and having a wide range of experiences. There are also three levels that are distinct in the book. This makes comprehension and understanding relatively easy. The novel is easy to navigate through due to presence of different levels arranged in chapters, which are easy to connect. They include the author’s attitude towards the British government, his perception of human nature as well as how different concepts are portrayed for instance what it entails to be an intelligence officer and the requirements involved. There are many issues that can be depicted from the Kim novel. This piece of work will give a review of the novel in regard to what the story is about and the various perspectives that can be derived from the author’s arguments.

There is a close relationship between the two. Apart from Kim, an old lama man is also seen with respect to religious development. The author leads us through a story of a young person, Kim, and what he encounters all through to maturity. It is an adventure story with an extremely stimulating plot that is characterized by war, intrigue, spies and mystery among other aspects. It is a novel that has attracted a lot of interest and readership due to the content or information contained therein and the lessons provided. Kim is an interesting novel authored by Rudyard Kipling.

Kim novel by rudyard kipling