Rikki: Differences Between Book And Movie

Watching the movie before a book is a little weird. Most think the book has the mistakes until they look it up.The Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story and short film’s differences are hard to spot. Unless looking at the story as a whole, finding the differences would be hard. The story is based off a mongoose being found by a family, who then saves the family from two cobras living in their garden. Not much could change between a simple fight like the one the antagonists and protagonists fight. Looking over the whole plot contains some of the three main factors of the actual story, first reviewing the conflict, or what caused the plot of the story, the climax, and the falling action-resolution. Next would be the film’s conflict, climax, and resolution. Looking at all of those will give a general idea

of how different the film is from the story.
During the story’s rising conflict Rikki is washed away from his family, and found by a family who takes him to his house. After being aroused, Rikki explores the family’s garden, to which he encounters the story’s main anti-protagonists, which are cobras by the name of Nag and Nagaina. The only reason Rikki encounters the cobras is because he hears the weeping of a bird family whose child had been devoured by Nag. Later in the night, Nag attempts to slay the family in the bungalow, Luckily, Rikki is there to save them, but even though he killed Nag, Nag’s death is illusioned to look like the father in the bungalow killed him with a gun.
Nag is later described as “two pieces”. Darzee, who was the husband of the bird family, rejoiced by singing a victory song, which isn’t in detail. Rikki knew he now had to deal with Nagaina. But Nagaina wanted revenge on the bungalow family because she thought the man had killed Nag. earlier on in the story, Nagaina mentions her eggs are almost ready to hatch, so, currently, Rikki is trying to lead Nagaina away from the family by using the previously mentioned bird family’s wife to lead her away. The eggs are almost hatched, so Rikki smashes all but one, to trick Nagaina. Nagaina falls for the trick and ends up not killing the family, and later on is killed by Rikki in her own rat hole.
During the movie’s rising conflict Rikki is washed away from his burrow, and found by the bungalow family, who take him back to the bungalow.

Some small differences were what Rikki ate throughout the start of the movie and the bathroom scene. At the start, instead of meat Rikki eats a banana, which he eats later in the story. While the bungalow family’s son is taking a bath, rikki explores the bathroom, which he did in the book. Rikki, in the film, seemed to explore the bathroom a lot more in the movie. Rikki even checked out the bath itself. Rikki decides to explore the bungalow and confronts the bird family, who seem to be afraid of Nag, but no details are given if they ever even had a child to begin with, The encounter with Nag is basically the same. During the movie, the man doesn’t shoot Nag after Rikki kills him, so Nag doesn’t end up as “two pieces”. Darzee’s victory song, this time, is given a whole minute of singing. The book never had the lyrics in the story, but where show in a separate page. The Nagaina knows Rikki killed Nag, so she decides to take revenge on him by killing the bungalow family. Rikki tricks Nagaina the same way, and they go back to the same rat

hole.
There will always be small differences, because each person has their own version of the story they want to tell. For example, a director would maybe want this or that detail switched. Overall, in the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story, not much is changed. In the rising conflict, not much is changed, just what is seeming to be a lack of detail about Darzee, and some more details in the bungalow. In the conflict, a pretty major part of the how the story went changed, in the story Rikki kills Nag, but the man from the bungalow family shoots Nag, so the situation looks like the man killed Nag. In the movie, the man doesn’t shoot Nag at all. The conclusion is basically the same. So overall, whoever did the movie of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi made it really close to the story.