Rikki Tiki Theme Essay

Loyalty is the quality of being loyal to someone or something. In a bungalow located in Segowlee, cantonment a youthful mongoose named Rikki-tikki who was snatched out of his home would have to save a young boy Teddy and his family from deadly snakes. Rikki-tikki-tavi, written by Rudyard Kipling, and it’s movie, produced by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, have many similarities and differences. Rikki-tikki-tavi, the movie and the book are not the exact same.Some of the differences and similarities are that in Rikki-tikki-tavi the book, Rikki and Nag fight in their first meet, but in the movie there was no fight between them and in both the book and the movie Rikki-tikki meets Darzee and his wife, and Rikki-tikki and a dust snake fight. The

Rikki-Tikki is a brave character in this story. He first demonstrates this during his first encounter with Nag and Nagaina, “He bit, indeed, but did not bite long enough, and he jumped clear of the whisking tail, leaving Nagaina torn and angry,” (para 29). This proves that Rikki-Tikki is quite brave and had the determination to hurt Nagaina after hearing what

Between the two mediums, the conflicts between characters are comparable with minor variations. The main disagreement in the story and the movie is the rivalry between Rikki and Nag and Nagaina. Rikki’s and the cobra’s clash began as soon as Rikki went out to explore the garden. He met Darzee, the tailor bird, and his wife who was mourning the loss of one of their babies “because it had fallen out of the nest and Nag ate it.” (Kipling) Another dispute is between Rikki and Chuchundra about Chua’s comment “that Nag is everywhere.” (Kipling) A thrilling clash of rivals occurs when Rikki goes to the melon patch and smashes all of Nagaina’s eggs. Notwithstanding the similarities of the mediums, a difference materialize in how Rikki comes to face Karait. In the book it states “It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came

Have you ever wondered what it was like to feel the rush of bravery? Have you ever felt proud that you can say you saved someone's life. Well, in the story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rikki-Tikki is a brave character who is not afraid of anything when it comes to those he loves. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is that loving someone gives you the bravery to protect them.

Nagaina is the main villain in this story. She is very evil when she first tries to kill Rikki-Tikki in the garden. Then a little later in the story, she finds Rikki-Tikki’s owners/family and threatens to kill them! Rikki himself says “Now I have Nagaina to settle with, and she is worse the 5 Nags.” (24) Nag is her dreadful husband that also fights Rikki. Nagaina is very

Rikki-tikki-tavi did have a right to be proud of himself because he saved Teddy and his family from Karait, Nag, and Nagaina. On page 16, paragraph 2, on the secondhand side of the page it states “He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy’s father beat the dead Karait. ‘What is the use of that?’ thought Rikki-tikki. ‘I have settled it all’; and then Teddy’s mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy’s father said that he was a providence.” Rikki-tikki-tavi also has a right to be proud of himself because the author stated on page 19, when Rikki-tikki killed Nag in the bathroom, it says” It’s the mongoose again, Alice; the little chap has saved our lives

Then, Rikki Tikki killed Nag by himself, and Nagaina gets mad and tries to go and kill Teddy and his parents. The next day Darzee sings a song about how Rikki killed Nag. Later,Rikki smashes Nagaina’s eggs but, one. Darzee tells him that Nagaina is going to kill the family. He runs to find her as she was getting ready to strike at Teddy. He threatens Nagaina to fight for her last egg. Nagaina fights Rikki Tikki and they rumble into a hole. Everything's still and Darzee thinks that Rikki Tikki is dead. She sings his “death” song. At the end of the song Rikki comes out of the hole happy and triumphant.

One main part of the story is when Rikki had shown up to the families land and they decided to take care of him instead of burying him. Another main part of the story is when Rikki had looked around the house to take familiarity into the new house when he overheard Nag and Nagaina talking about how they were going to kill the family. Rikki knew that he couldn’t let this happen.So he hid out of Nag’s sight until Nag woke up and Rikki finally killed the evil Nag. Also,when Nagania had been in the house of the family, Rikki came to her and told her that he crushed her eggs and challenged her to fight Rikki. Rikki had made this decision to protect his family. To conclude Rikki and the family lived safely in the bungalow for the rest of their lives. ”Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.” Emilie

This implies that Nagaina will hurt them no matter what because they killed Nag. This character trait is similar to Rikki Tikki’s because they both are just trying to help their family even if they are dead. Secondly, my husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still.

For example, in paragraph 16 Nagaina tells Nag, “as soon as our eggs hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.” This shows that Nagaina cares deeply about her children and will make sacrifices for them. In addition, it proves that Nagaina is not as mean as she seems since she just wants for her children to be safe. Nagaina can also be very cruel, for instance, the large snake states, “If you move, I strike, and if you don’t move, I strike.” This proves that Nagaina will kill the people no matter what they do to try to stop her.

Rikki camps out in a room and waits for Nag to fall asleep because he was waiting for the morning to strike. Once Nag falls asleep, Rikki-Tikki bites onto him and doesn’t let go. The father hears all of the racket coming for the room and comes in and shoots the snake. The family all wakes up and praises Rikki-Tikki as he once again saved the family. The next morning, he sets off to go and slay Nagaina now. While he is in the process of trying to find Nagaina, he comes upon the two birds again. The guy bird, Segowlee, is loudly singing a song about how Nag is dead. The girl bird, Darzee warned Rikki that Nagaina had many eggs and are close to hatching. So Rikki goes and breaks all of the eggs so they will hatch no more. He then runs to the house and sees what’s going on their. Nagina was inside the house and was close to striking the young boy. Rikki then distracts the snake and the father snatches the boy from the snake. Nagaina then runs off and Rikki chases her. He follows her into a hole and does not come out for a while. Finally, Rikki-Tikki comes out and Nagaina is dead. The author them, bravery, was shown throughout the whole story as Rikki-Tikki risked his life to save

The theme for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is “courage comes in all shapes and sizes. He takes down two full-grown cobras with almost no hesitation. The other characters are also brave, for they helped Rikki-Tikki take down the cobras.

Rikki-Tikki was always putting others before him when he got the chance. Some examples of this include when he was concerned for the birds and asked who killed their children. He wanted to help them somehow because that is the type of mongoose he is. Another time he put others before him was when he fought Nag to protect the birds. He knew that the birds couldn’t defend themselves, so he stayed to help them out. He didn’t back down because he was scared, instead he stayed to help his friends. The final example is found on page 234. When Rikki-Tikki is walking home, he sees a small snake named Karait. The snake said that he was death so Rikki-Tikki killed the snake to keep it from

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a book about a mongoose doing something good for a family not expecting something in return, but he does get something in return. The theme of this book is do something nice for someone and you might get something in return.

For instance Nagaina planned to kill everybody in the bungalow to protect her babies (para 49 and 51). This proves that she was vicious and protective, she was vicious by trying to kill the family and protective by doing it for her babies. Nagaina’s character trait is different from Rikkki and Nagaina is vicious and protective and when Nag died she went all out vicious which gave her the strength, and protected her babies which gave her love and strength.