An ABC for Baby Patriots (1899)
The British Empire lasted for over 300 years and at its peak it was the largest empire that the world has ever known. It covered more than a quarter of the Earth’s total land area, and controlled more than 500 million people. The British Empire spanned the globe, and the famous phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe its expanse around the World.
The colonies and the colonized people are portrayed in a very discriminating and derogatory way in the book. They are illustrated in an almost humorous way, and are made out to be slaves or clowns in funny costumes. It emphasizes the idea that Great Britain is the strong and powerful while the colonized people are dumb and weak.
An example of this is the illustration for the letter K. In this picture the colonized people are portrayed as slaves, and they seem to be bound in chains and wearing …show more content…
In the book they are clearly made out to be worth “less” than native British people, and are described as stupid and ignorant. It is somewhat the same in the poem. For instance; Rudyard Kipling writes, “We eat pork and beef. With cow-horn handled knives. They who gobble their rice off a leaf.”
While the British eat their pork and beef with fancy cow-handled knives, the colonized people are so uncivilized that they gobble their rice of a leaf.
In his poem Rudyard Kipling uses a lot of verbs to describe how the colonized people do things compared to how British people do things. An example of this is in stanza three; He describes how the people of the colonies “stick lions with spears,” while the British “shoot birds with a gun.”
Throughout the entire poem, he expresses how they live, how they eat and how they dress, and it is the same thing the author of the book does. They both make the colonized people come across as uncivilized and
The British Empire lasted for over 300 years and at its peak it was the largest empire that the world has ever known. It covered more than a quarter of the Earth’s total land area, and controlled more than 500 million people. The British Empire spanned the globe, and the famous phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe its expanse around the World.
The colonies and the colonized people are portrayed in a very discriminating and derogatory way in the book. They are illustrated in an almost humorous way, and are made out to be slaves or clowns in funny costumes. It emphasizes the idea that Great Britain is the strong and powerful while the colonized people are dumb and weak.
An example of this is the illustration for the letter K. In this picture the colonized people are portrayed as slaves, and they seem to be bound in chains and wearing …show more content…
In the book they are clearly made out to be worth “less” than native British people, and are described as stupid and ignorant. It is somewhat the same in the poem. For instance; Rudyard Kipling writes, “We eat pork and beef. With cow-horn handled knives. They who gobble their rice off a leaf.”
While the British eat their pork and beef with fancy cow-handled knives, the colonized people are so uncivilized that they gobble their rice of a leaf.
In his poem Rudyard Kipling uses a lot of verbs to describe how the colonized people do things compared to how British people do things. An example of this is in stanza three; He describes how the people of the colonies “stick lions with spears,” while the British “shoot birds with a gun.”
Throughout the entire poem, he expresses how they live, how they eat and how they dress, and it is the same thing the author of the book does. They both make the colonized people come across as uncivilized and