Nagaina is one of the main antagonists in the story “Rikki Tikki Tavi” written by Rudyard Kipling. She is a vicious cobra. She is married to Nag, who is also a vicious cobra. They both want to be rulers of the garden. She wants to kill everything in sight, especially because she was babies on the way. She is stealthy, murderous, and protective.
First, Nagaina shows great stealth when she tries to kill Rikki at the beginning of the short story, “...just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife” (19). Darzee, the foolish bird, warned Rikki Tikki just in time to jump. If he hadn’t, Nagaina probably would’ve had success with her stealthy plan. Rikki could’ve bitten her back but, “He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose, he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra...” (19). After that, Nagaina and Nag slither off steaming knowing that they could have gotten rid of Rikki Tikki if it weren’t for the crazed bird.
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Then, Nagaina shows she is murderous when she tries to kill Teddy and his family.
“Nagaina saw she had saw her chance of killing Teddy, and her leg lay between Rikki Tikki’s paws…” (25). She wants to kill Teddy and his family so that she can be the queen of the garden with her little cobras. Even more, she wants to avenge her husband, Nag, because she thinks that Teddy’s father killed him with the gun. She also wants to kill Rikki, “Nagaina gathered herself and flung out at him” (25). And the reason for this murderous state is she wants to be the queen of the
garden. Lastly, Nagaina is protective.“Nagaina spun clear round, forgetting everything for the sake of the one egg…” (25). She gave up everything, being the queen, killing the boy and his family, even killing Rikki so that she could have her last surviving egg. She was so protective, that she didn’t care what had happened to all her other eggs, “...he found twenty-five eggs…” (24). She just wanted to have her one egg, because after everything that had happened, it was her only hope. In conclusion, this character was stealthy, murderous, and mean. She wasn’t afraid to kill and she is very protective. She was very distraught when she heard that Rikki had killed all of her eggs. She would always want everything she did to be perfect and she wanted to be the queen of the garden, and of course, to do so, she had to kill everything that was in her way. And those are the reasons that Nagaina is stealthy, murderous, and protective.
Our journey starts in the year 1853 with four Scandinavian indentured servants who are very much slaves at the cold and gloomy headquarters of the Russian-American fur-trading company in Sitka, Alaska. The story follows these characters on their tortuous journey to attempt to make it to the cost of Astoria, Oregon. Our list of characters consists of Melander, who is very much the brains of the operation as he plans the daring escape from the Russians. Next to join the team was Karlson, who was chosen by Melander because he is a skilled canoeman and knows how to survive in the unforgiving landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Third was Braaf, he was chosen because of his ability to steal and hide things, which made him a very valuable asset to the teams escape. Last to join our team is Wennberg who we know is a skilled blacksmith who happens to hear about their plan and forces himself into the equation.
In the book Rikki crushes all but one egg of Nagaina’s to bribe Nagaina into staying away from the kid. Rikki said, “What’sthe price for a snake’s egg? For a young cobra? For a king cobra? For the last-the very last of the brood? The ants are eating all the others by the melon bed.” Also in the book the snake flees with the egg trying to outrun Rikki. In the book it states, “He had forgotten about the egg. It lay on the veranda and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, til at last, while Rikki-Tikki was drawing breath, She caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path.” Also in the movie the mongoose booked it right into the snake hole where many mongooses never come out. (movie) The movie shows “Rikki chasing Nagaia down a hole where the snake lived.” Also in the movie Rikki killed Nagaina, and whatever cobra ever dared to try to threaten him or the family. In conclusion that is how the Resolution is related to the book and the
Rikki-tikki is proud of himself because he helps the animals and the humans by killing the snakes or dangerous animals. The humans first find him after the flood washes him out of his berrow. Teddy wants to give him a funeral but his mom seas that maybe he isn't dead. He helps a bird and he helps the humans. On Page 16 “Teddy shouted to the house: “Oh look here! Our mongoose is killing a snake.“ On Page 18 and 19 Rikki-tikki killed Nag, “The big man picked up Rikki-tikki and he had said it's the mongoose again, Alice: the little chap has saved our lives now.” Teddy's father, the big man beats the snakes after Rikki bites the snakes to make sure the snakes are dead. Rikki kills the eggs in the melon bead so that there aren't little Cobras around
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