Rudyard Kipling

exploited, abused and their natural resources like Ivory were exploited. Where by the poem, The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling is also based on the European attitudes towards imperialism in pessimistic. They considered the work…

“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling, have many similarities as well as many differences. The similarities and differences that will be compared are the theme, speaker, and the parent’s meaning. “Girl” and “If” will be compared because although they are very similar to each other they have many differences, and although they may seem mostly the same there are many differences between them. The themes in “Girl” and “If” consist of the same concept. Both have the aspect of being…

managed to escape a blow from behind.” (pg. ) Rikki and I share multiple human qualities, one of them is bravery. In my soccer season, I stepped up to be the goalie when no one else wanted to. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is bravery can conquer your fears. Rikki-tikki is a brave and curious character in this story. “It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted’’(page 9). It demonstrates…

benefit a person as a whole in their life? In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes(Wicked) by Ray Bradbury, Charles Halloway the father of Will Halloway drives away the evils that chase his life by accepting his emotions. The poem If by Rudyard Kipling discusses the topic of emotional turmoil and the struggle of accepting your problems. The article The Art Of Resilience expresses how to cope with stress and how stress affects your life after you have accepted it. The novel Wicked has a…

Cobras are rarely in danger because they are great fighters with their venomous fangs and fast strikes. The story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is mainly about a mongoose taking on the responsibility to kill 2 deadly black cobras. The book is written by Rudyard Kipling. The book and movie of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi have many similarities, such as the characters, the setting, and the conflict. The characters are pretty much the same in both the movie and the book. The evil snakes, Nag and Nagaina, are in both…

Through the poems If and The Road Not Taken, composed by Rudyard Kipling and Robert Frost respectively, both contemplate the future of one’s identity. Kipling utilises the title of his poem, personification and repetition of similar dialogue to “If you can dream -and not make dreams your master,” to look into the future of the described man. Kipling is describing characteristics of a man and basically saying, ‘if you do… you will be a man in the future.’ Similarly, Frost uses the metaphor to…

Although, nobody can define success for you; everyone's opinions differ. Rudyard Kipling’s “If” and Haki Aitoro’s “What Will Be Your Legacy?” both of the narrators are fathers; however, they differ in why they wrote it and for whom. The poems also have very different tones and the mood that is set is tremendously different. To begin, the occasion in “If” is different than in “What Will Be Your Legacy?”. In “if” Kipling wrote the poem for a child entering…

In his poem The White Man’s Burden, Author Rudyard Kipling instructs white men to take up the “burden” of responsibility for the “sullen peoples/half devil and half child” who are affected by colonization. Kipling, was a well-known pro-Imperialist writer and a prestigious college graduate who had won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for writing. His tone throughout the poem is insultingly patronizing and reflects the popular attitude toward imperialism at the time. Despite widespread…

Theme is what you learned in the story or the main idea of it. In fact, I know the theme of the story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” is good triumphs over evil. Altogether, Rudyard Kipling did a great job showing that Rikki-Tikki is good while Nag and Nagaina are evil. I can show you good triumphs evil is the theme since the mongoose is good and wins while the cobras are wicked and dies. I know you could say the theme is face your fears, but I can prove you wrong. I know the theme of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is…

At the end of the story, Kipling writes: “Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud…” (p. 134). In “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-tikki is a brave mongoose who protects an innocent family, consisting of a mom, a dad, and a little boy named Teddy, living in a bungalow in India. He does this by defeating two vicious cobras, Nag and Nagaina, that were 3 times his size. Rikki-tikki has a right to be proud of himself because he was willing to…