THROWN AWAY

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. The Kipling’s writer masterpiece characterized by portrayals of people, history, and culture of his time, so Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The story entitled “Thrown Away” by Rudyard Kipling looks like a tragic story of a young man who had a sheltered upbringing, and cannot handle life as a subaltern in India. He quarrels with his fellow officers, falls into debt, takes his colonel's rebuke too much to heart, and shoots himself. He is later found by the narrator and one of the majors. What happened next you will know in the continuation.