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    Rikki Tikki Tavi’s great adventure Rikki Tikki the mongoose that has nothing to fear has many similarities in it’s book and the movie. A mongoose is a very sociable animal in the book/movie and in real life too. The Title of the mongooses book is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the author is Rudyard Kipling. The movie Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is found on Vimeo Rikki-Tikki-Tavi video clip on Vimeo.The producer of the movie kept the true version of the story to the concept. The similarities in the book and movie are

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    bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailor bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink; he could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to

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    Movie And Movie Analysis

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a well known mongoose who is a warrior and hero to many. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, who sometimes goes by Rikki, has a story that is told through book and movie. It is well known that when watching a movie after a book they have very large or small differences. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s book and movie are both called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi but the book is by Rudyard Kipling but the movie is based off of the book by Rudyard Kipling and is produced by someone else. The two have a lot of similarities

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    Tikki Book Comparison

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    Rikki-tikki-tavi Book vs. Movie Cobras with their deathly bite, intimidating hood, and their upright posture. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story about a mongoose who is rescued by a boy and his family after there was a flood. He protects this family from two king cobras named Nag and Nagaina. This is told in a short story by Rudyard Kipling and it's also a movie. After reading and watching this story, there are more similarities than differences in the characters of the birds, the snakes, and the muskrat

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    stolen and sold to the wild, a mongoose that gets separated from his family, and a fourteen-year-old boy that gets shot at by a group of strange men are all protagonists that face difficult challenges revealing their characteristics. Buck in The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a domesticated dog that gets stolen and sold to a sled dog team as he faces the challenge of surviving in the wilderness. Rikki in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, is a daring mongoose who gets washed away from his

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    Rikki Phillipi Quotes

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    his family through close deaths and life threatening moments. “Rikki Tikki Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling is a fictional fable that demonstrates that people should protect anybody that they care about. 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

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    In the short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling, it shows the human characteristics of a mongoose, Rikki, as being valiant and intelligent, and it also shows how a snake, Nagaina, is clever and intelligent. The theme of this story is about overcoming your fear to protect your family. First, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi shows the human characteristics as being valiant and intelligent . for example, Rikki says “Well, as his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right

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    Rikki-Tikki Tavi is a short story written by Rudyard Kipling that takes place in Colonial, India. Rikki-Tikki, the principal character, is a snake-eating mongoose that gets flushed out of his home and taken in by a family. The story shows the good and evil in people and the fight between the brave mongoose and the two snakes, Nag and Nagaina. In the end, Rikki ends up killing the two snakes and to save the family that adopted him. I believe that Rikki is not guilty and that the snakes were attempting

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    Similarities and Differences in the Movie and the Book in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’’ Rikki-Tikki has many similarities as well as differences in the movie and book. Rikki-Tikki is a mongoose which is a small carnivorous mammal with a long body and a tall and grizzled or banded coat. Although the book and the movie have many similarities there are also several differences in the book and movie. Some of them are minor differences though, for example

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    “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” the Movie and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” the Book “Bravery is the capacity to to perform properly even when scared half to death,”(Omner M. Bradly) A Mongoose is part of the Herpestidae family who are carnivores. A Mongoose generally spends its time killing unwanted snakes. One of the most dangerous snakes that the mongoose hunts is the King Cobra. The King Cobra is the most dangerous cobras and also one of the most dangerous snakes. The book “Rikki Tikki-Tavi” and the movie “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

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