Rudyard Kipling

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This paper discusses the life and works of Nobel Prize-winning author, Rudyard Kipling. The paper presents a brief biography of Kipling's youth in India, his marriage, and family life. The paper contends that his life experiences shaped much of his work. The scope of Kipling's work allows us to see how he was influenced by his personal experiences. He was able to draw from his experiences and punctuate them with realism and imaginative qualities. The paper provides reference to some of his literary works, specifically to his most famous, "The Jungle Book".

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"From very early in his life Rudyard Kipling's experiences would influence his writing. Kipling was born in Bombay, India on December 30, 1865. During this time, the country was controlled by Victorian England. Kipling's father was an artisan who moved the family to India intentionally "to India purposefully to encourage, support, and restore native Indian art against the incursions of British business interests" (Cantalupo). These early Indian experiences would later reappear in many of his works. As a young man, Kipling attended the United Services College in Devonshire, where he became inspired to read and write. He once traveled with his father to France, which "sparked in him a lifelong interest in that country and its people" (Sullivan 8). Because his parents did not have enough money to send Kipling to Oxford, he returned to India to write for a newspaper for the Civil and Military Gazette in Bombay, a career that lasted seven years. During this time, he also began writing short stories and poems."

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