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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rikki-Tikki was a strong mongoose that wasn’t afraid of anything not even snakes. The movie and the story Rikki-tikki had many things that weren’t the same which made them very different. RikkiTikki was faced with challenges which made his journey difficult. In the end Rikki Tikki kills both of the snakes and is called a hero. Rikki did not do all of this on his own, but he had the help of some of his friends along the way which also made his journey fun and interesting

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    Tikki Vipi Theme Essay

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    The theme “Hard work can bring a great reward” could be thought of as the theme by some, but that will be disproved within this essay. In the exposition, Rikki, a young mongoose in India, is saved by a family, who has a boy named Teddy, after he is washed away in a flood. The family begins to take care of Rikki since mongooses are instinctively inclined to kill snakes and there are many of them in India that pose a threat to children and even adults. He becomes very attached to this family and guards

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    Rikki Duvi Analysis

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    The story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story about a mongoose protecting his owners garden from two cobras Nag and Nagaina. The conflict of the story is two Cobras who want to kill the owners and Rikki because they want the garden to themselves and for Nagaina’s eggs to hatch.Rikki stops the two and crushes all their eggs stopping their plan to kill Rikki and the owners. Rikki's point of view is first person this lets the reader know what Rikki thinking at that moment. Rikki’s thoughts are important to

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    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. One reason for the “shapes and sizes part” is that Rikki-Tikki is a small mongoose. That doesn’t stop him from taking down two full-grown cobras. When Rikki Tikki hears that the cobras are threatening the garden, he doesn't hesitate to try to fight the cobras and defend. Even though Rikki Tikki doesn’t succeed the first time,

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    Rikki Tavi Quotes

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    disrespectful. The snakes, Nag and Nagaina, caused a lot of disturbance that set Rikki off and made him act like he did. Rikki Tikki Tavi was a loyal upstanding character, but sometimes he acted in a very disrespectful manner. Rikki was a very disrespectful mongoose. Chuchundra, the musk-rat, was so scared to come out to the middle of the room because Rikki always threaten to bite him. He threatened most of the animals in the yard, but he threatened Darzee more. He told Darzee that he would roll the eggs out

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi This story resembles bravery in a little mongos named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. A mongos who saves a family and gets something in return. He protects this family with his life and always thinks of others first. Rikki is a fighting, protecting, and loving mongos who has killed many of snakes protecting this little boy named Teddy, and his family. In the story and movie there are many of similarities and differences, to do with the plot, setting, and characters, comparing the book and the

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    Some people say risking their life to aid others is crazy, but Rikki-Tikki and Cap did anything they could to help their friends.Cap wanted to fulfill Sam’s promise, while Rikki-Tikki was trying to protect his friends and Teddy’s family; however both characters were motivated by the desire to do the right thing even though it was dangerous and tough. Rikki-Tikki was trying to kill the snakes and protect Teddy’s family because they saved him. Rikki-Tikki was found on a roadside ditch about to die

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    Nagaina Quotes

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    Nagaina is a character in the short story,”Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. She is an antagonist who married Nag, and just laid snake eggs. Nagaina is a wicked, depressed, caring snake who will do anything for power, revenge, and to protect her eggs. Nagaina is wicked. She is considered to be wicked because she would gladly kill every person in the bungalow and Rikki-Tikki just to be in control. As well as being wicked, she is a snake who plays dirty. She is a dirty playing snake because she

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    Rikki Character Analysis

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    “Every hero is a villain.” If you change the way you look at the world, you could see the other side. Every coin has two sides, and so does every person and character in the book. Rikki-Tikki for example is actually antagonistic. Despite that Nag and Nagaina killed Darzee’s child, Rikki-Tikki cheats in the survival game and uses sly and villainy methods. The survival game is the game that every creature in nature participates. If a creature wins, it lives. However, if it loses, it dies. No one will

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    In Rudyard Kipling’s story, “Rikki-Tikki Tavi” , there is an evil snake. Her name is Nagaina. Nagaina is Nag’s wife. Nagaina and Nag are both very wicked and are trying to take over the garden. There are many exciting and interesting components to the story. For example, Nagaina shows that she is protective, smart, and angry. In this story, Nagaina shows that she is protective when Rikki-Tikki grabs hold of her last egg. Nagaina was willing to give up everything she had been fighting for. She said

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