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Rudyard Kipling's Experience With The Holloways

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In the year 1865 a child, born in Bombay India, would bring encouragement and happiness to readers across the globe (Bio). This future writer would provide an escape from the harsh realities of life via short stories, poems and books. Nevertheless, people still rejected the wisdom that this child would produce. Despite turmoil and heartache, Joseph Rudyard Kipling displayed peace of mind throughout his writing. In doing so, he created meaningful writings that catered to the entire family.
Kipling lived in Bombay ,India until the age of 5 when his mother decided that he should live in England with a foster family (the Holloways) in order he could gain a better education. Kipling had a terrible experience with the Holloways. Mrs. Holloway beat Kipling and treated him unkindly on top of the fact …show more content…

Kipling family didn't have money to pay for college in India, so he moved to America for better opportunities. In America he wrote his most famous book Jungle book (Bio). In addition to that he also wrote many poems. “If,”, one of the poems that stands out the most. The poem expressed how one should not be over consumed with the cares of this world of this world. The first lines of the poem say “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” (If,Rudyard Kipling) Kipling presents all these questions in the form of “IF” that intrigues your mind to rethink what you devote your thoughts too and how you combat issues in the world. At the end of the poem Kipling concludes by saying “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” (If,Rudyard Kipling). Kipling expressed that if you could accomplish those things despite what was going on around you the world should be yours. “If” reflexes Kipling’s childhood in a way because he endured so much hardship from Mrs. Holloway yet he still stayed focused and strive toward

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