Rikki Tiki Character Traits

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A red-eyed beast. A fuzzy mammal. A snake killer. A mongoose? In the short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi written by:Rudyard Kipling. His story takes place in India,when a mongoose gets flooded out of his home in a storm, he ends up in a garden. A family finds him and takes him into their bungalow. He goes around their garden and meets all the other creatures and introduces himself as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi when Nag starts threatening Rikki-Tikki. Rikki barely has time to jump when Nag’s evil wife,Nagaina come whizzing under Rikki. This starts the war between the mongoose and snakes. Rikki kills Karait and Nag and is coming for Nagaina. When Darzee’s wife tells Rikki-Tikki about Nagaina’s eggs that are soon going to hatch, he knows

He displays his rudeness many times when he is with Darzee. Darzee loves to sing songs and he is currently sing about how Rikki killed Nag, when finally Rikki loses it and says “Oh, you stupid tuft of feathers!” said Rikki-tikki angrily.”Is this the time to sing?” ” (P.23) Rikki hates when Darzee sings because he never listens when he sings. So Rikki always gets annoyed with Darzee and starts being rude to him. Another example of Rikki being rude is when he is talking to Nagaina about letting his family go in exchange for her last cobra egg.” “Nagaina, Come and fight with me. You shall not be a widow long.” Nagaina saw that she had lost her chance of killing Teddy, and the egg lay between Rikki-tikki's paws.”Give me the egg, Rikki-tikki. Give me the last of my eggs, and I will go away and never come back,” she said, lowering her hood. ”Yes, you will go away, and you will never come back; for you will go to the rubbish-heap with Nag. Fight, widow!“ “ (P. 25)When Rikki says this to Nagaina she is upset about Rikki killing all of her baby cobra eggs. All Nagaina wants to do is take her one baby cobra egg and she will leave the garden and never come back again. But Rikki doesn’t want that, he wants to kill her and her last baby even after he killed all the others. Rikki is so confident that he is telling Nagainia that she won’t be a window very long, implying Rikki will kill her soon enough. The last way Rikki is

Rikki displays bravery when he follows Nagaina down her snake hole. When Rikki is very rude to Ngaina, he taunts her about not being a widow for not much longer and how she should just fight with him and get it over with. Rikki is a very curious mongoose, especially when he almost slips in the bathtub and burns his nose on a cigar. Character traits are important to have in life so you don’t misjudge somebody. You can look back at what they said and how it makes you feel about their personality. Just remember to always use character traits to judge people you just