Colonel Creighton is the first white man Kim met that he could respect. ... They are cries that leap above the surface noise of Indian life and Kipling's high volume prose ( Bloom 109 ). ... Inwardly, his attitude is that of a white ruler ( Bloom 126). ... Kim's white blood, his identity papers, and his tendency to own and rule will prove to be central to the identity he is seeking to build, but neither at the beginning nor the end does he think of himself as a 'sahib' ( ClassicNotes). ... The native ...

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