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SCattaruzzi 3ASA - Approaching Short Stories
by SCattaruzzi - (2016-01-10)
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Lispeth by Rudyard Kipling 

 

The story is in India, in a Christian Mission; It talks about Lispeth a beautiful Hill-girl. When she is a child, her parents decide to take her to the Christian Mission. After that, her parents die for cholera, but she decides to remain at the Mission and she becomes half servant, half companion of Chaplain's wife. Lispeth is happy at the mission. One day, during one of her walks, she meets on the ground a unconscious man, an Englishman and she decides to take him home: The first sentence that she says when she arrives to the Mission is: “This is my husband” ; in fact she wanted to marry him. The Chaplain's and his wife's reactions are very severe because Lispeth is very passionate and instinctive but the intention of marry the Englishman is very hard in Lispeth. After fortnight the Englishman recovers and he can go but in these 15 days he stayed every time with Lispeth who fall in love with him. At the moment of his departure Lispeth is very sad but the Englishman says her that he will return to marry her. Now she is very happy, she thinks him every day, she imagines where he can be in every moment but actually the Chaplain's wife told the Englishman that he tell Lispeth that he will return to marry her; but Lispeth doesn't know that, and waits for the Englishman. After three months, Chaplain's wife decides to tell the truth: the Englishman will no return. Lispeth doesn't want to believe that. So Lispeth return to own people where she will stay all the live; when she drunk, she spoke about her first love. 

I think the ideal reader of the story is a British who wants to go in India because this story teach that when you go in a other country, you think that the people who lives there are strange, you are scared and you think so that this people may hurt. But at the end the British hurt the other people because the British is scared by the different. In the Rudyard Kipling’s story the Englishman, who go to India to study butterfly, is treated by Lispeth, who is a beautiful Hill-girl and she is fall in love with him, but  at the end he leave and lie to Lispeth, before him journey he promise to Lispeth that he will return to marry her. When Chaplain's wife decides to tell the truth to Lispeth, so she decided to return to her own people. After that she hate English people.

The biologist couldn’t have refused Lispeth if she had been British because she is very beautiful and intelligent and she saves the biologist, Kipling write her as an angel. So your question will be that: ”Why the Englishman leave Lispeth?” Because he doesn’t want marry a Hill-girl so she has the broken-heart.