5/21/2023 0 Comments Kipling poem ifAfter school he returned to India and worked as a journalist before embarking on a lengthy journey back to England that took him through the Far East and the United States. However, the influence of his unhappy childhood can perhaps be seen in his empathy for children in his writing, particularly in his acknowledged masterpiece, his 1901 novel Kim, but also in his writing for children such as The Jungle Book and Just So Stories on which his continuing popularity is largely based. However, these experiences didn’t lead him to overtly rebel against the system that inflicted them on him and he became the leading literary exponent of empire and the virtues of colonialism, ‘The White Man’s Burden’, with its assumptions regarding the superiority of Western, and specifically British, culture. At the age of six he was sent to England to be educated and spent a miserable few years in the neglectful care of foster parents and enduring the rigours of public school life. His father was a teacher in a local school of art. 1936) was born in Bombay (present day Mumbai).
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