In five pages this paper analyzes how the author employed language in his novel in order to develop the characters, metaphor, theme, irony, and setting. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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written word is the writers tool. Therefore, it can also be inferred that the writers ability to hone that particular tool, to use it with skill can predict the success
of the author. This can be said for the phenomenal writing of Rudyard Kipling. His use of language, dialect and what writers term unique voice were woven with such skill
that his works of fiction and poetry have lasted many decades past the authors own death. The use of language is especially noticeable in one of Kiplings earliest works, Kim.
Rudyard Kiplings Kim is a novel that is set in British colonial India, when it was still ruled by the British. Kim
is a young Irish boy who is raised by a woman who is a half-breed or half-caste as Kipling calls her. Kims real mother has died from Cholera and his
father has deserted him. Raised as if he were an Indian child, Kim is at home in the streets of India. He travels the country with his friend and teacher,
the lama, and inadvertently becomes involved in the mystery and intrigue of Britains spy system against Russians in India. Some of
Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence structure of a single paragraph encompasses
one or two lengthier sentences followed by a short sentence, as if one were pausing to breathe. The paragraph most time ends with one or two longer sentences which bridge
into the next using some transitional phrase. It is this sense of rhythm that one can almost feel the vibrations of the city that Kipling speaks about and that Kim
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