Rudyard Kipling

high summer flood captured Rikki-tikki and carried him away from his mother and father to a roadside ditch. This was the beginning of a fierce war fought by Rikki-tikki, the mongoose. These events occur in the short story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a bungalow in the Segowlee cantonment in India. It depicts that sometimes, it is necessary to put yourself at risk to protect or defend others. Rikki-tikki puts himself at risk to save the family that he now lives…

many ways. Rudyard Kipling was an English writer who was someone who believed that even people from different ends of the earth could still get along. Richard Meinertzhagen, a British man who traveled to Kenya, wrote about his experience in his journal. He demonstrated in many ways his sense of superiority among the native people. Both of the men’s opinions were shaped by the vastly different lives they lived as British citizens: Kipling as a writer and Meinertzhagen as a soldier. In Rudyard…

Imperialism is deeply rooted in the American way of life. The U.S. began as an imperial territory of the British empire. Westward expansion and diminishing the Native American population into virtual nonexistence was a piece of American persona. Rudyard Kipling supported imperialism in its truest form. Kipling’s childhood was no stranger to imperialistic manners as he grew up in British occupied India. The White Man’s Burden was a poem simply describing Kipling's personal feelings and opinions…

Harlot House where he discusses prostitution and love verses lust in a relationship (Greenblatt). Though Rudyard Kipling wrote with more restraint than Oscar Wilde, he wrote on a more common level, where everyone who read it could understand the main idea (Greenblatt). Rudyard Kipling’s If- talked about remaining in balance with one’s self and included a self-confident tone (Greenblatt). Rudyard Kipling’s If- seems to lift up the reader as though it were a pep talk among teammates. When Oscar…

The Problems with Imperialism The “White Man’s Burden” poem by Rudyard Kipling justifies the cause for imperialism. Those being conquered view being controlled as unfair. On the other hand, many imperialists do this as a favor and see this as a must using religion as motivation. However, these imperialists especially the current main three of Britain, America, and France are leaving a big impact on their inferiors. The “White Man’s Burden” still has a contemporary relevance today and still…

King cobras are known to eat other snakes including other cobras; however, during mating season the King cobra produces a special hormone that makes him lose his appetite so that he can’t eat his mate. In the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, there is a cobra named Nagaina. One day a mongoose is washed out due to a storm, and meets Nagaina and her husband Nag in the garden of a bungalow. Right away Nagaina knows that the mongoose Rikki can’t stay because venomous snakes and…

Burden Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India. However, Rudyard was sent to England to be educated in 1871, when he was just six years old. While in England, Rudyard was abused by his host family, which led to the development of his defiant and satirical attitude. Kipling recounted his abusive childhood in his book Something of Myself, “Myself I was regularly beaten”(“Rudyard Kipling”). Unable, and unwilling, to further his education, due to financial limitations,…

“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling was wrote in 1899 to promote imperialism. Rudyard Kipling states “send forth the best ye breed,” talking about white men. He is saying that White men are the best breed, or the best of humankind. It is a poem written in encouragement of the European sense of superiority over other races. In “The White Man’s Burden.” Rudyard Kipling is describing what his opinion of the burden of a white man is. He describes the intelligence of a white man being that…

Comparing and Contrasting of Rikki-tikki-tavi “Run and find out” (Rudyard Kipling, page 144), that is a motto that a very special mongoose lived his whole life by. The book Rikki-tikki-tavi is for the most part similar to the movie form of this story. The movie is just approached differently than the book that Rudyard Kipling wrote. In the story Rikki-tikki-tavi, Rikki the Mongoose is a brave little animal that protects the ones he loves by fighting the ferocious, deadly, and greedy snakes…

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee repetitively uses the term “if” as an association of Scout Finch’s depiction of her father Atticus. This repetition parallels and connects to the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. The stanzas of the poem can all be linked to different occasions in the novel and come together to create an impacting characterization of Atticus in the eyes of Scout. This characterization develops Atticus as a person who is, to everyone, filled with integrity and wisdom Atticus’…