Kipling’s Choice
Author’s Note: This is a summary of the book “Kipling’s Choice”.
As a teen, the great Rudyard Kipling, the famous writer of the award winning “Jungle Book” loved his country to the end. However, in an attempt to join the navy he was turned down because of his poor sight. Devastated, he encourages his son John Kipling to join the military to fight in WWI, and because young John wants to do everything he can to impress his father, he accepts.
John Kipling, living in England during the early nineteen hundreds, loved his father to pieces. He loved him so much he would do anything he could just to please the man, but because his father had very bad eyesight, John too has poor eyesight. Fortunately for Rudyard, John does not have as poor sight as him and thus in an attempt to avoid history repeating itself, Rudyard Kipling encourages and almost begs his son to join the military when WWI broke loose. When the Kipling’s came to the barracks to enlist, the young Kipling would be made a second lieutenant a high ranking officer in the military. For Tthe lieutenant Colonel of the regiment had been friends with Rudyard for years. Within one year the young eighteen year old lieutenant John Kipling would be shipped out to France and be in the fight that would change his life forever.
