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The White Man's Burden Dehumanized Analysis

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Rudyard Kipling incorporated the theme of “stranger in the village” in “The White Man’s Burden” by dehumanizing the character. This author depicts the character as a monster by saying “Your new caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child” (Kipling 7-8). Likewise, in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ezinma was an ogbanje. In their tribe, they believed in ogbanje children. They believed Ezinma was one of them. They also believed that the only way to get rid of and ogbanje child was to mutilate them. Another way that “The White Man’s Burden” dehumanized characters was by referring to them as property, Rudyard Kipling showed on line four by writing “To serve your captives’ needs”.
Treating people who do not fit in as property is
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