Rudyard Kipling's Writing Style Analysis

Rudyard Kipling’s captivating “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” became an addition to his multitude of children’s tales vastly known as The Jungle Book in 1895. The enchanting story collection most view as a classic has yet to lose its prevalent admiration to all audiences. The accumulating volumes are set in disparate scenes of colonial India during the period of British Imperialism. Kipling writes of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and his battles between the two king cobra snakes that dominate the garden of his new home. Throughout the entire story, the reader endures an adrenaline rush from the fervent plot line of the anthropomorphic narrative. “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is an unmatched story due to Kipling’s ability to avail incomparable literary devices

The substantial evolving of his style occurred throughout his career due to his different experiences and life situations. The miserable suffering Kipling experiences from his foster family and military school becomes his greatest attribute to his career’s success; he consoles himself by reading which first introduces him to literature. Ira Mark Milne explains in his Short Stories for Students that this bullying allowed him to “[...] form the values preached in ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’: courage, loyalty, and an ethic of hard work” (Milne 257). Kipling attends school while living as a member of a foster family because his birth family lives in India and want him to receive the education he deserves. He eventually acquires the opportunity to return to his family and he begins to pursue his dream and nurture his passion for writing. He begins to develop as a writer from his first occupation as a journalist. His work instantly becomes widespread for the comedic effect he incorporates into his work. Kipling also gains many supporters through the patriotism that never fails to shine through his work. His writing career occurs during the period of British Imperialism and he undoubtedly manipulates that to his advantage. During the beginning of this story, Kipling exaggerates Rikki-Tikki’s apparent privilege of being accepted by a white family to the reader as he writes in