... Kim?' 'What is Kim?' Kim asks himself at several points in the novel, and although the plot has a loose picaresque structure, being held together by a journey, making it a kind of 'road novel', the theme of Kim's need to find himself seems to be the backbone of the story ( ClassicNotes ). By birth Kim is white, an Irish boy, whose father was a soldier in an Irish regiment. But, he has ... grown up as an orphan on the streets of Lahore, 'a poor white of the very poorest' . With his skin 'burned black as any native' he looks ... made Kim special, that is what made Kim. He is successful b...

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• Grade Level: High School