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A review by mylovelyforest
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
3.0
Based on true-life events, Kipling uncovers the dynamics between members of the Freemasonry as well as the colonisers themselves (The English Freemansons) with the colonised (the native Indians, who are explicitly and recurrently belittled).
By intertwining some brief atmospheric imagery with semantics related to heat–fire–red, the first-person narrator reports – like a good journalist– the stream of trial-and-error codes and consequences of one's acts as dutiful Englishmen of action in this (short) story that shares surprising similarities with: From Up on Poppy Hill, The Importance of Being Earnest and Animal Crossing.
Combining different verb tenses and language registers, it is a story set in a From-Up-On-Poppy-Hill newspaper-club style, where two characters from The Importance of Being Earnest are in conversation with some villagers in Animal Crossing (portrayed by one single character) asking for some advice on an ambitious adventure that may or may not go wrong.
By intertwining some brief atmospheric imagery with semantics related to heat–fire–red, the first-person narrator reports – like a good journalist– the stream of trial-and-error codes and consequences of one's acts as dutiful Englishmen of action in this (short) story that shares surprising similarities with: From Up on Poppy Hill, The Importance of Being Earnest and Animal Crossing.
Combining different verb tenses and language registers, it is a story set in a From-Up-On-Poppy-Hill newspaper-club style, where two characters from The Importance of Being Earnest are in conversation with some villagers in Animal Crossing (portrayed by one single character) asking for some advice on an ambitious adventure that may or may not go wrong.