An Excerpt From 'The Man Who Would Be King'

After reading “The Man Who Would Be King” my understanding of one’s country’s existence in another has been altered. Before I believed that people from a different country who goes to another country and lives there would live in harmony; no big changes and all they shared was land. But, after the reading I saw and was opened to the fact that some people like explores go out and look for counties with less knowledge and resources to inhabit and they bring along with them valuable resources, and their home countries’ culture, customs, ethics, and way of living. Trying to spread their beliefs and customs of their home country. Some many spread their customs by process of suggestion and others many in some way shape or form force it on others. “The Man Who Would Be King” is a great example on how someone can force their beliefs and customs onto a whole community by just having the right resources. In the story the main characters Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan choose to …show more content…
They spared the twenty men but they also placed fear in their heart and made them trade their service and later to be seen as loyalty for their lives. From that moment they took over Kafiristan with forces and ruled their valley. Over time more people fell to their services and let Daniel and Peachey rule them because of the force and fear of death that they emplaced in the people. They also made the Army men learn how to work and use the weapons that they had entered the country with. They made them obey them, the rules they created and made them come accustom to “every man eating in peace and drinking in quiet”. Making everything ad everyone just the way they liked and wanted it. With force, action and not suggestion Daniel and Peachey ruled Kafiristan the way they knew how, like outsiders with knowledge and resources that the Kafiristan did not have from the very