Question

Explain how Kim’s heritage influences his relationships with the people he encounters, including his friends. What does Kim think about the British who live in India? Use text from the excerpt you read to support your answers.

Answer 1

Kim's identity is particularly complicated. He is European by birth, but he has been immersed the culture of India his whole life. Kim displays the traits of both the British and the Indians, but he considers the British superior to the natives, as seen in this interaction with an Indian friend: “There was some justification for Kim—he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions—since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English.”

However, Kim is not comfortable with the idea of interacting with Europeans, partly because of the kind of life he leads:

As he reached the years of indiscretion, he learned to avoid missionaries and white men of serious aspect who asked who he was, and what he did. For Kim did nothing with an immense success. . . . [and] missionaries and secretaries of charitable societies could not see the beauty of [what he did].

Kim avoids British men and women who live in India. Since he has grown up with the natives, he shares their mistrust of the Europeans.

Please note, this is the exact wording for the question on edmentum/plato so you might want to change it up a bit! Good luck :D

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Kim’s heritage influences his relationships with the people he encounters, including his friends in that he was born in Europe, so he has different genes that the people from India so his personality is different. However, he has been living in India for many years and he understands the culture of this territory that in those years was ruled bu the British government. He knows how to relate with the people from India and the people from Britain although he has always believed that the English people are superior. The contradiction is that the has differences with the British who live in India because he knows so well the native men and women from India. He knows what the Indians think of the white British and why they are reluctant to the British. So he developed traits that make him more fond of the Indians than the British.

The novel "Kim" was written by English author Rudyard Kipling in 1900. In this novel, Kipling makes a precise description of the culture, traditions, customs, and beliefs of the Indian people.