Rikki-Ticky's Point Of View

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In “Rikki-tikki-tavi”, by Rudyard Kipling, the snakes, Nag and Nagaina struggle to kill the mongoose, Ricky-Ticky-Tavy. Ricky-Ticky-Tavy decides to kill the snakes and save the humans and the other animals in the garden. The narrator’s point of view in this story influences the reader’s interpretation of the conflict between Rikki-tikki-tavi and Nag by telling us what everybody is thinking; they know everybody's thoughts and feelings. For example, the narrator had a lot of dialogue to show what everybody was saying and thinking to themselves.
In "Ricky-Ticky-Tavi", the narrator tells some of the story in Ricky-Ticky-Tavy's point of view. This point of view lets me and everybody else's feelings about the conflict by seeing what's going on with Ricky-Ticky-Tavi and how he's feeling about the whole situation with the snakes and humans and all the other animals. This effects my feelings of the conflict in a big way. Without knowing what Ricky-Ticky-Tavi was thinking, I wouldn't know what he was going to do or how. I also wouldn't know what to think. By the narrator telling some of the story …show more content…

The author uses the point of view of the other characters in "Ricky-Ticky-Tavi" for the same reason he used Ricky-Ticky-Tavi's point of view; to show people what the other characters were thinking and feeling. Also to know what they were going to do. The author of this story used the other characters point of view and it made the story a lot easier to understand. Same as with Ricky-Ticky-Tavi, we wouldn't know what to think; especially with the snakes, which the story was told mostly in their point of view out of the other characters. They would just be doing things and we wouldn't know why! This is why the author of "Ricky-Ticky-Tavi" used the other characters point of

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