Kim I and II
What do you think of Kim? As with Schreiner's work, Kipling is the product of a colonial upbringing on the fringes of British empire. Do the works strike you as similar? Different? Why?To help you think about this, think about Kim, the Colonel, the lama, and Mahbub Ali -- what strikes you about these characters? How do they relate to each other and the larger geolpolitical map of the novel? Try focusing on a specific passage containing one of them.
posted by Devo @ 2:13 PM
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I liked Story of an African Farm wayyy more. Kim is really hard to get into, and even once you start going with it, the lack of narraration makes it tricky and sometimes a new person comes in and is speaking and I don't even realize it until a few lines in when I'm like ummm there's no way this is being said by Kim or the Lama or whatever.
That said, the plot is kinda fun and Kim is a whole lot cooler than Waldo- though it would be kinda cool to picture Waldo jumping from building to building on the farm to spy on Bonaparte or someone. If he could have stuck with reality long enough...
Anyway, I'll stick it out (like I really had a choice) and maybe I'll get used to it and like it.
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