The imperialism of the late ninetieth century serves as a backdrop to Rudyard Kipling’s famous novel, Kim. It is a story of an orphan Irish boy, who has lost his parents when he was three. However, the documents related to his origin and family background are locked in a piece of cloth, which he wears around his neck all the time, in a sense it is a Masonic certificate that will liberate him from the clutches of wretched poverty status. Kim was born in Lahore, in the British-ruled India. Being an orphan, he is either indulged into futile vagrancy or seen practicing minuscule errands on others to feed himself in the sweeping poverty-ridden Indian landscape. To side with him, there is an old Indian lady who is heavily addicted to opium, and on the other side is Mahbub Ali, a horse trader, who runs a network of spies for the British secret services. One day Kim meets and befriends a Tibetan lama, who is in quest of the River of Arrow. To find that river they start their jo...
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