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    The theme of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is that courage can come in all shapes and sizes. Rikki was a young mongoose who defended the family that saved his life after a flood. Despite being just a young mongoose he fought fiercely with the greedy snakes trying to take over the bungalow. Part of having courage is doing the right thing. Rikki stays with the family that saved him after the flood and protects them. When he first learns of Nag and Nagaina from Darzee after hearing him weep for the baby Nag ate

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    Rikki Tavi Quotes

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    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

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one brave mongoose who had the courage to go up against the fiercest animals on the planet, Cobras. (Movie)(Kipling 143) The story took place in Segowlee Cantonment, India in a house’s garden where Darzy the bird and his wife, Chucundra the muskrat, and the deadly Cobras live. (Kipling 143) The Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was a mongoose who got washed away from his home and ended up with a new family. He would would end up coming across three snakes in the large garden and killing them

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    Organisms of the African Savanna Essay

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    THE MEERKAT (Suricata suricatta) The meerkat , otherwise known as the suricate, is a small, furry member of the Mongoose family (Herpestidae) that can stand upright. The creatures have round, fluffy bellies with smaller, more slender limbs. Their snouts are small and pointed, coming to a sharp tip at the animal’s black nose. It lives in the African Savanna grasslands in groups of twenty five to fifty. These groups are called mobs or manors. The female meerkat gives birth to two to five pups

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    all his life for a glimmering girl. Farah Ahmedi climbed a mountain with a prosthetic leg and also took care of her family even though she had many difficulties with her own problems. Rikki attacked a snake as she went into a snake hole as o other Mongooses would do. People all around the world undertake missions to succeed in one thing or another. Aengus wanted to grab the glimmering girl and hug her and kiss her, as Farah strived to survive and support their family. Rikki wanted to protect his family

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    Rikki Tavi

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    The Obvious Theme of Rikki Tikki Tavi Theme is the central message in a literary work. In the story “Rikki Tikki Tavi” Rudyard Kipling, the theme is never give up. This is the theme because the protagonist in the story, Rikki, never gives up. Some people may feel that the theme is size doesn’t matter, but the main theme the author is trying to get across is never give up. The author wants to teach us to never give up. In the rising action, Rikki never gives up. When he was killing Nag he kept fighting

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    Comparing and Contrasting Rikki-tikki-tavi the Movie and Book A small mongoose all alone has to face to king cobras. A giant wave flushes Rikki out from his warm, cozy den and leaves him on the bank by Teddy’s family’s garden where he faces two king cobras Nag and Nagaina. If he does not kill them his new friends will die! This conflict is portrayed in the story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling which became a motion picture movie. The story and the movie are similar in plot but there are some

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    wanted to prove himself and protect his “family”.These characters had different for doing what they did. Ahmedi was determined to survive any circumstances, while Aengus wanted to find the girl to have true love, and Rikki-Tikki wanted to be a true mongoose, killing and eating snakes. However all three were able to go through these obstacles and reach their goals. Farah Ahmedi The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary, is about a young girl (Farah) who’s had a hard childhood and

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    Eisenhower approved of a secret plan. The plan was to overthrow Castro. Two years later, this disagreement between the United States and Cuba became known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. In November 1961, President Kennedy approved of Operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose was a series of schemes to destabilize the Cuban government. The plots were kept secret until 1993. This secret was brought to life when declassified documents revealed that at

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    Tikki Davi Theme

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    the story. I am confident the theme of this story is good versus evil. I know that Rudyard Kipling wrote Rikki-Tikki-Tavi because in the story evil snakes bully other animals in the garden, as well as the family.The gigantic snakes pick on the tiny mongoose. The good is represented by the bravery found in Rikki-tikki. He builds up enough courage to fight the gigantic cobra, the cobra is as big as the Cubs stadium. I can see where some people view the theme as survival, because the antagonist and protagonist

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