Tikki Tavi Theme Analysis

Rikki-tikki recognizes an almost hidden snake caused by it’s similar color of the ground that he hides upon. Dust snakes have as deadly of a bite as cobras and their small size comes as an advantage, allowing them to turn unexpectedly in any direction. The battle between the mongoose and snake is what begins the trust of Teddy’s father, and makes Rikki-tikki a savior in the family. This scene also leads to the death of the two other snakes, Nag and Nagaina by giving Rikki-tikki the confidence to battle the other snakes. Which allows the critters to feel safe at home.

Rikki-tikki-tavi was willing to risk his life for his family and others around him. Though Rikki Tikki is small animal, that doesn’t mean he can’t do big things that could change and save lives. The love in his heart is too big to be contained, so his love expresses itself by making him courageous and brave for his family. In society people tend to underestimate animals like Rikki but he is a guardian angel watching over the home of his family. Rikki Tikki Tavi is a hero in the story. He killed the cobra snakes to protect his family of birds from the whispers of death.

According to the story on page 64,after Teddy’s family revived him from the flood, the narrator states,”…every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be house mongoose someday…” This reveals that Rikki-Tikki was motivated to become part of the family because ,as a house mongoose, he would be able to protect his family from predators such as cobras. He could also repay Teddy’s family for taking him in. Later in the story, when the cobras Nag and Nagaina plotted to kill the family, Rikki-Tikki was scared, but he knew that he needed to protect the family. The text on page 68 states,” As angry as he was, Rikki-Tikki was very frightened as he saw the size of the big cobra.” This demonstrates that he was motivated by his feelings of loyalty to the family, that he willingly put himself in danger to protect

The story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is about the rivalry between Rikki, a small mongoose and Nag and Nagaina, two king cobras. A giant wave flushes Rikki out from his warm, cozy den and leaves him on the river bank near Teddy’s family’s garden. Rikki is taken in and cared for, by Teddy’s family. While exploring the garden he confronts two king cobras Nag and Nagaina. If Rikki does not kill the snakes, the garden creatures will fall prey to the cobras! This exciting story also became a motion picture movie. The story and the movie are similar in plot but contain some notable differences, including where Rikki finds Teddy in the bath and that Nagaina waits for one of

Angry as he was, Rikki-Tikki was very frightened when he saw the size of the big cobra...then he jumped…[and] braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head”(Kipling 68-69). This proves that Rikki-Tikki was brave enough to at least try to fight Nag and try to kill him, which he did. Then, Rikki-Tikki tried completing the task by killing Nagaina, but, “he went down with her [into the snake hole]-and very few mongooses, however wise and old they may be, care to follow a cobra into its hole”(Kipling 73). In the quote, Rikki-Tikki tried to follow Nagaina but ended up going into the snake hole with her, but he still got rid of her in the snake hole. Rikki-Tikki ended up learning that bravery and determination will help you reach your goals.

What motivates a person or character in text to undertake a mission. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is a fictional narrative that demonstrates that characters in text undertake a mission because of multiple motivations. The narrative begins by introducing the reader to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the human family, as well as the initial conflict of Rikki-Tikki being washed away from his mongoose family and ends up being adopted by the human family. Soon thereafter, Rikki-Tikki encounters the story’s most important conflict, battling the snakes, and while engaging in his mission to kill the snakes, Rikki killed Karait the dusty brown snakeling, Rikki then engaged in battle with Nag and won, Rikki lastly slaughtered Nagaina. The resolution

Rikki-tikki Tavi took place in India in the late 1800s. Rikki-tikki Tavi was a brave, little mongoose who killed copra’s and Karait a venomous snake and saved a family from the snakes. Darzee, the tail-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never came out into the middle gave him advice but Rikki did the real fighting. When Rikki-tikki was first trying to kill the copra he was scared, but then he remember that mongooses are known to fight and kill snakes. Rikki-tikki and the copras are natural enemies. Every time when Rikki-tikki would fight his eyes would turn red and fierce.

To begin with, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a brave mongoose and will do anything to protect his family. For example, the author states, “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked! Rikk-tck-tck!” chuckled Rikki-tikki. “The boy is safe, and it was I—I—I—that caught Nag by the hood last night in the bathroom” (para 96). Rikki risked his life to distract Nagaina by beckoning her away

He almost kills Teddy, but Rikki Tikki at the last second gets into a skirmish with Karait and Rikki Tikki wins. There is a muskrat named Chuchundra that is scared Nag and Nagaina. He says to Rikki Tikki “Don't kill me.” (Kipling 149) Then Rikki Tikki explains that he wants to help Chuchundra be safe from Nag and Nagaina.

Because Rikki-tikki keeps trying to end the snakes, a muskrat warns him that he might be killed. Kipling is trying to suspense for the reader that there is a chance Rikki could die. To create the idea that Rikki will win the war with the snakes Kipling uses “At the bottom of his cold heart he was afraid”(Kipling 467). Nag the cobra may try to act like he will win, but he knows mongooses usually win. To add

Mongoose fight snakes, many snakes, but in this story, a little mongoose fights two King Cobras. Rikki Tikki, the little mongoose, defeats two King Cobras, Nag and Nagaina, that try to harm the family that is cared for by Rikki Tikki. Rikki Tikki was found by them because he was washed up by a storm and fell into a river. Both of these stories have an amazing perspective of a story. However, they are different to each other in some cases.

“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.” One of the cobras most threatening. When the cobra feels angry, it spreads out its enormous hood, to scare its predator. features is the hood. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the book and movie are similar and different in an abundance of ways. The similarities are exact matches, while the differences illustrate the small separations in the story line. The main similarities or differences in the movie and book of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are how the mother finds Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in the book and the father finds him in the movie, how the mother is

Imagine having a little mongoose right by your side all your life to protect you from all of the huge, monstrous cobras. Teddy’s parents were happy that Rikki was able to protect Teddy from Nag and Nagaina.The book form of Rikki Tikki Tavi is written by: Rudyard Kipling. Movies and books of the same kind/title have their own ways of making things, and are almost always different from each other. The book and the movie are different from each other because in the movie, it shows Teddy in the bathtub, when Rikki gets picked up after the flood and the mom said to Teddy that Rikki isn’t really dead instead of the father saying it as in the movie, and finally because when Nagaina went into the hole, Rikki Tikki tried so hard not to go into the hole where as in the book, Rikki didn’t care and just followed into the hole after Nagaina. There are many differences in

This proves that Rikki Tikki is courageous because he bites Karait even though he is super fast. This character trait helps demonstrate that it takes courage to protect the ones you love because he has courage to even try to fight Karait. In addition, As he held, he closed his jaws

In the rising action, Rikki never gives up. When he was killing Nag he kept fighting till the end. He kills Nag like he was a missile launching in the air, and doesn’t let anything pass him. He is like a security guard. When the protagonist and the antagonist were in an impasse and Nag was trying to make Rikki petrified, for instance saying, “ I’m Nag. The great God of Brahm.” Except at the beginning of the story it says “ It is the hardest thing in the word to frighten a