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Kim | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Compare Kim with one or two other well-known novels of a young person's education, such as Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn, or Tom Sawyer.

2. Kim is a novel detailing the qualities of four major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Discuss the qualities of these religions as presented by Kipling.

3. The wheel is an important symbol in the novel. Discuss how the lama sees the wheel as a religious symbol and how Kim sees the wheel as a symbol of his own education.

4. Despite his colonialist thinking about...

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