How Does Rikki Have The Right To Build A Mongoose?

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The author of the short story, Rikki-tikki-tavi, is Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-tikki is a mongoose. A mongoose is like a little in in his features, but like a weasel with their habits. Throughout the story, Rikki-tikki defends the family from predators. Rikki also defends his new animal friends. He, though he was scared, fought heroically two cobras and a snakeling. Rikki had some help, but otherwise he faced the predators alone. Rikki-tikki has the right to be proud. Some background information is that this takes place during the 1800s during summer. The setting is the family’s house and garden in India. Rikki-tikki and the snakes are natural enemies. The story starts out with Rikki being washed out of his burrow and the family rescues him. while Rikki is exploring, he comes across Nag and Nagaina. They fight a lot and eventually it comes to the point where he kills Karait, a snaking, and Nag. Nagaina tries to have revenge on the family because she thinks that they killed Nag, her husband, This leads up to Rikki-tikki and her fighting each other, Eventually, he kills Nagaina. Rikki-tikki, though he was frightened, did not cower. He bravely faced his fears to protect the family. In the story Rikki thinks that Rikki-tikki was at first frightened. It …show more content…

” Darzee, the tailorbird, helped him, Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor but always creeps around the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.” (pg. 16) Rikki find the troublesome snakes plotting against the family after talking to Chuchundra and kills Nag, even though he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog. ( pg. 22) He was truly valiant. Rikki-tikki faces Nagaina, who was more of a challenge. When he is faced with going into Nagaina’s hole, where no one dare ventures, but he doesn’t hesitate to go in. He bravely goes in and kills

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