Where the arrow landed, a River sprung up. He needs to talk to smart people, because he is looking for something extremely important to him: the River of the Arrow.Īccording to the lama, once during a test of strength the Buddha shot an arrow out far beyond his furthest target. The lama wants to speak to the curator of the Wonder House because he has heard that the curator is a wise man. This man is a lama, a Tibetan Buddhist from the North. So one day Kim is playing in front of the Lahore Museum (which everyone in the book calls the Wonder House) and he spots someone wearing clothes of a style he's never seen before. And two men will appear first to prepare the way for the arrival of this Red Bull. Kim's prophecy comes down from his now-deceased father: Apparently, Kim's luck will change once he finds a Red Bull on a green field. No, not " neither can live while the other survives"- that's about a different orphan boy. (For more on this time period, check out the " In a Nutshell" and " Setting" sections.) Kim spends his time in the city of Lahore running around, scrounging food, and generally leading a carefree and mischief-heavy life.īut there is a prophecy surrounding Kim. In fact, this isn't just any old fairy tale time: this book takes place specifically around the late 1890s in British India. Once upon a time (because at its heart, Kim is a fairy tale), there was an orphan boy named Kimball O'Hara, Kim for short.
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