the children is to love them, secondly, it is to teach them according to Richelle E. Goodrich. The meaning behind this is that children should not only be loved, but that teaching them important life lessons are just as vital. This can be seen in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" poem. "If" is about being who you are without the thought of someone else's opinion in the form of a conversation with his son. Another poem that relates to this theme is Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son" poem which shows a discussion
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Kipling’s use of syntax and tone reveals a sympathetic and considerate approach to interracial relationships as a means of discarding imperialistic dogmatism. The majority of the story occurs within Holden and Ameera’s home in which Kipling employs poetic and romantic diction which lends itself to “sense of artificiality [that] often surfaces whenever they speak of the eternality of their love and the permanence of their happiness” (Dillingham 68). However, this artificiality is not a genuine flaw
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Henry Rider Haggard By Grayson Parker H Rider Haggard(Henry Rider Haggard) was born in the 22nd of june in the year 1856 in Bradenham Norfolk, England and died in Marylebone London,England the 14th of May in the year 1925 and his ashes are buried at St Mary’s Church. Haggard was an english writer and wrote a lot of adventure novels such as; She, and the novel which he is most famous for called King Solomon's Mines and other great adventure novels as well.H Rider Haggard attended Garsington
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In “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” Riki tiki and Nag struggle to fight each other. Rikki-tikki-tavi decides to fight Nag and move in with the people that found him. Nag and Nagaina are cobras with vicious tempers. The characters all have different personalities, and the narrator switches between the point of view of Nag, Nagaina, and Ricki Tiki. One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
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In the story Rikki Tikki Tavi a mongoose saves a family from two terrible snakes, Nag and Nagina. The family took him in after they found him on the side of the road, so for repayment Rikki got rid of the snakes for them. Rikki was a honorable and respectable individual, but he acted in a disrespectful manner sometimes in the story. First of all, Rikki Tikki was very rude to Darzee and his wife for hardly even doing anything. Rikki said,” If I could get up to your nest, I’d roll all of your babies
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Analysis of The White Man’s Burden (1899) The poem The White Man’s Burden is about imperialism and how the powerful countries seized foreign land to become a power with colonies. The text talks about how the inhabitants of the lands acted differently due to culture difference, and how it was the white man’s burden to lecture them in their own values and culture. The title of the poem is The White Man’s Burden. This tells us what the poem is about, so it fits well to the text. The structure of
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Did you know the Bandar-logs from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is similar to bullies? The Bandar-log is similar to bullies by how they behave, speak, and treat others. Both, Bandar-log and bullies, do not have any rules in their own world. They both do not take everything seriously and they always choose to play around. The Bandar-log and bullies always think they are above everyone else. In my opinion, it is obvious that the Bandar-logs and bullies are alike. In their world, they do not have
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is the desire of a country to increase its power by gaining control over another country. Whereas nationalism is the desire of a group of people to form independence from their own nation. In this paper, I will argue that both J. A. Hobson and Rudyard Kipling will encourage that imperialism is related to nationalism. In the primary source Imperialism by J.A. Hobson, Hobson argues that imperialism is unnecessary to the European capitalism wealth. He also feels that imperialism is only effective
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a. The black people are described as being inferior. According to Rudyard Kipling line 8 they are”Half-devil and half-child”. He describes the black man as somebody who should be glad to be able to serve the white people and at the same time escape famine. “The White Man’s Burden” also makes it possible to prevent sickness (line 22). The black man ought not to have any aspirations (line 26). In the last stanza Rudyard Kipling says if the black man had tried to be a free man he would prefer to go
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Have you loved or cared for someone so much for that you would do anything for them? In this fictional story, Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling, Rikki is brave and protects the family that saved him. Rikki was a little scared at the beginning but didn’t let that bother him. In the end, because Rikki was brave, he won. If it hadn’t been for bravery Rikki Tikki might have lost. The theme is no matter how big or small, even in the toughest times bravery will shine through. Rikki Tikki is a brave
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