Similarities And Differences Of Rudyard Kipling's 'Vicki-Tikki Tavi'

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”-Omar Bradley. These are words that describe the bravery of Rikki-tikki-tavi, the main character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, when faced with a perilous situation. Rikki-tikki as well as other mongooses are extremely curious, brave, and are killers of one of the most intimidating snakes in the entire world - the king cobra. Rudyard Kipling’s story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, portrays Rikki-tikki as “a true mongoose” although young and inexperienced in the fighting of king cobras. When an English family in India takes him in and helps him to recover from an incident in which a high summer flood carried him away from his home, he tries his best to protect

Nearly 80 years after Rudyard Kipling wrote the short story, Chuck Jones (a cartoon writer) produced Kipling’s story as a tv show. The show/movie illustrates Rikki as a curious, full-of-energy, and fierce animal. There are many similarities and differences between the book and the movie “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”. Three aspects of the different mediums that can be compared and contrasted are the characters, the settings, and the conflicts.
The characters in the different mediums are extremely similar. However, there are many differences between the characters in the movie and the characters in the Kipling’s book. The characters are: Rikki-tikki-tavi (the main character), Nag (the snake), Nagaina (Nag’s wife), Teddy (the little boy), Teddy’s mother, Teddy’s father, Darzee (the tailorbird), Darzee’s wife, the Coppersmith (a

One example of a similarity between the book and the movie is that the story takes place in an English bungalow. Both the book and movie describe the setting as “ ...the big bungalow”. The movie also exhibits the big bungalow and gives the audience a general idea about bungalows. In addition to, the different mediums describe the setting as “in Segowlee cantonment”. If researched one will find that cantonments are British army bases in India that existed in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The movie, too, portrays the setting as an army base as it shows other bungalows in the background. Lastly, the a large portion of the story happens in the bungalow’s big, encompassing garden. The movie and book both describe the garden as, “large, and half cultivated” and “splendid hunting ground [for a mongoose]”. The settings in the book and in the movie mirror each other almost