The theme of identity is often expressed in books, novels, and movies. Throughout the first half of the semester, I have learned to analyze the dialogue of the texts we read with the movies we watch and have come to find that this topic is ever evolving. Based on the book “Kim” by Rudyard Kipling, I come to depict the significance of language to one’s identity is that exploring your personal life thoroughly helps you understand the impact of people and experiences forming your identity. The purpose of identity is to answer questions about who you are. Although, how do I identify who I am? How do any of us? In our world, we identify ourselves in two ways: who we are as a person, and who we want others to believe we are. Having your identity taken away from you (or the one you thought you had) is a very difficult thing to handle, and the only way to prevent it is to protect it. A young, orphaned, Irish boy by the name of Kimball O’Hara (Kim) who had lived all of his life in this British colony, begging on the streets for money, one day ran into the people in the regiment of his deceased father. When he was forced to emigrate from his home to a school where he learned to transform into a Sahib (master), it is there that Kim learns how to manipulate minds and the truth behind his background. It is just then that the British Secret Service sends him on a mission to capture the maps, letters, and notes of Russian spies in the Himalayas. Along the way Kim brings a man he had met before the mission and developing best friend, the lama. You see, while Kim has set out in search for different people, the lama is in search for himself. “I follow the Law – the most excellent law.”(50) Lama decides to join Kim on his journey throughout colonial India because the lama needs to find the River of Arrow, hence his enlightenment. A part from the lama, through this story, Kim is surrounded by people with secure identity. Although they may be pretending for reasonable purposes (Babu and Agent E23’s disguises), they all truly know who they are and what they are set out to do. Surrounded by this constantly, it is only normal for Kim to juggle between who he was and who he wants to be. “I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated again and again.” (156) Trained by Lurgan Sahib for a short period of time, Kim has developed into a master mind throughout this story. He is constantly one step ahead of everybody and quickly thinks of ways to outsmart the opponent. In chapter eleven, to prevent agent E23 from the police on the train, Kim dresses him up as a holy man. When the disguise successfully helps to avoid the people who are looking for him, E23 glances at Kim to say “Art thou only a beginner?” (171) Kim succeeds immensely in monitoring ways to increase his role in the opportunity he was given, that even superiors are impressed. No matter what would have changed Kim’s schedule or time in every corner he turned, this was his destiny. Even though the lama’s identity was his search for enlightenment, which was ultimately achieved “I saw the River below me – The River of Arrow – and descending, the waters of it closed over me; and behold I was again in the body of Teshoo Lama, free from all sin. It’s here!” (240) his destiny is complete. How