They remember his father, and given Kim’s special language skills and knowledge of the local culture, and his brightness, this young boy becomes an unlikely British spy. It is the flag of a group of Irish troops in the British army. The two travel The Grand Trunk Road hunting this magical river, but the adventure takes on a second task as well. He was sent all of a sudden to aid me in this search, and his name is Friend of all the World.” “He is, I think, not altogether of this world.
The monk intuitively recognizes that Kim, only about 14 at the time, is quite a special person: From Banaras they will take the Grand Trunk Road that runs from Banaras to Calcutta. The first journey that Kim goes on with the monk is from Lahore, in current day southeast Pakistan, on a journey slanting southeast across India to Banaras (present day Varanasi, India). They set off on this journey to find the sacred and magic River of Healing which the lama is looking for and which will free him from this world into some higher spiritual space. Kim becomes his chela, sort of servant/companion. His adventure begins when he meets Teshoo Lama, a lama monk who is on a search for a sacred river. He has grown up very poor, a street kid with incredible smarts. He has his birth certificate and a couple other papers sewn into a leather pouch which he carries around his neck. His father, Kimball O’Hara died when Kim was only three, but told him that “a Red Bull on a green field” would one day appear and befriend him. Kim is a poor, white, English boy who speaks the local Indian dialect and was born in British, India (actually in present day Lahore, Pakistan). Mahwah, New Jersey: Watermill Press, 1981 Book review - KIM By Rudyard Kipling Reviews of Nobel Prize winner
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