Rikki-tikki-tavi Rikki-tikki-tavi is a wonderful piece of literature written by Rudyard Kipling. It is about a young mongoose who bravely fights and wins multiple battle against two cobras, Nag and Nagaina at an army base in India. He saved many lives by killing the villainous snakes in the garden. Although was sometimes very curious which got him into a little trouble from time to time. He was proclaimed the hero of the bungalow, a strongly deserved title. I believe he has a right to be proud of himself because he saved the family’s life, he prevented further killings of the animals at the garden, and he strategically thought out a solution for each problems calmly and bravely. Rikki saved the family multiple times throughout the story. The …show more content…
In one of the very first parts in the book it says Nag had eaten one of Darzee’s newborn birds. ``We are very miserable,'' said Darzee. ``One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday, and Nag ate him.'' (Kipling 17) Rikki defeated Nag, preventing any further murders of Darzee’s children. Nag and Nagaina saw themselves as the king and queen of the bungalow and thought to be able to kill and eat as they pleased.``Who is Nag?'' said he. ''I am Nag. The great god Brahm put his mark upon all our people when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid!'' (Kipling 17) Rikki put an end to these thoughts and these unnecessary problems. Nag and Nagaina terrorized all the animals of the bungalow forcing them to constantly live in fear of them. Rikki put an end to their tyranny and should be proud of what he’s done for all the residents of the …show more content…
Rikki faced many problems throughout the story and prevailed as a hero in every one. For example, During the talk Rikki had with Darzee and his wife, Darzee warned Rikki to watch out and he smartly didn’t waste any time and jumped out of the way immediately. “Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring. He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag's wicked wife.” (Kipling 17) Later on Rikki discovers the nest that Nag is hiding her eggs in and goes to smash the eggs. He figured out that all those eggs will bring many problems in the future even though they are just eggs now. Rikki intelligently lured Nagaina away from the family to keep them safe with one of her eggs and brought the fight where they would be in harm’s way. Rikki-tikki put his paws one on each side of the egg, and his eyes were blood-red. ``What price for a snake's egg? For a young cobra? For a young king-cobra? For the last -- the very last of the brood? The ants are eating all the others down by the melon-bed.'' (Kipling 22) Rikki is a very clever mongoose and his intelligence comes in handy all down the path of his adventurous
Rikki tikki tavi I cannot get that song of the brave Rikki Tikki Tavi the mongoose out of my head. A mongoose is a furry creature from India who kills cobras or other types of snakes and if its eyes get red, the mongoose is mad. Also the mongoose is a curious creature It is strange how similar the book is in the movie. Some of these similarities are the conflicts, the resolution and the rising action.
The poem “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, is about the narrator’s attempt to eradicate woodchucks from a garden. The figurative message of the poem is how a person can change from good to evil effortlessly. The metaphor of the Holocaust is intertwined in the poem and helps enhance the figurative message. The uniform format and the implication of Kumin’s word choices creates a framework that allows the reader to draw out deeper meanings that the literary devices create. Maxine Kumin’s use of an undeviating format, word choice, and allusion to the Holocaust reinforces the purpose of her poem.
“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art,” said Josef Mengele, comparing science to an art. He was less of an artist and more of a curious, debatably crazy, doctor. He was a scientist in Nazi Germany. In general, there was a history of injustice in the world targeting a certain race. When Mengele was around, there were very few medical regulations, so no consent had to be given for doctors to take patients’ cells and other tests done on the patients’ bodies without their consent. This was the same time that Henrietta Lacks lived. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who went to the doctor because she had cervical cancer. Her cells were taken and are still alive in culture today (Skloot 41). Hence, her cells were nicknamed Immortal (Skloot 41). Although many, at the time, saw no issue with using a patient without consent issue with what?, on numerous occasions since then courts have determined that having consent is necessary for taking any cells. The story of Henrietta lacks is has similarities to an episode of Law and Order titled Immortal, which is an ethical conundrum. Despite this, the shows are not exactly the same and show differences between them. Both of these stories, one supposedly fictional, can also be compared to the injustices performed by Josef Mengele in Nazi Germany.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is most definitely a hero for protecting Darzee, the tailorbird, from Nag and Nagina. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who is exploring the garden for the first time, meets Darzee. Darzee tells Rikki-Tikki-Tavi that a baby fell out of her nest the other day and Nag ate it. Nag confronts Rikki-Tikki-Tavi for the first time, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has no clue what to do, never fighting a snake before. Nag and Nagina try to get to Darzee, but Rikki-Tikki-Tavi makes sure they don’t by his quick and subtle movements. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ends up killing Nag and Nagina goes away. In that scenario Rikki-Tikki-Tavi risks his life, because he did not know how to fight a snake, and ended up saving Darzee.
The concept of the absurd hero clearly displays the development of the main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux. Through his slim chances of changing the present, his maintaining of existentialist integrity, and his absurd personality, comes the perfect absurd hero. Dr. Rieux is a true fighter for what he believes in is best for everyone else, his fellow citizens. He is not selfish nor rude. He is not conniving nor sceptical. He knows exactly what the future brings, more death from the plague, but that does not stop him from doing his purpose in life, to help the sick. He is an unlikely hero, but he sure does prove himself worthy of the “hero” title.
Using the above definition of hero and heroism, this essay attempts to assess three famous heroic characters portrayed in arguably the three greatest literary epics known to humankind, Achilles of Ancient Greece, Sundiata Keita of Ancient Mali and Rama of Ayodhya in what is today Modern India. With references to Stanley Lombardo’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, D.T. Niane’s Sundiata and R.K. Narayan’s translation of Valmiki’s Ramayana, this essay seeks to compare and contrast the attributes of these heroes, the morals associated with their heroism and their reasons for engaging in battle.
Art has been the reflection, interpretation and representation of artists' beliefs and morals eternally. Various artists stand for different matters that quite possibly affect their lives, or might be of an interest to them. Norval Morrisseau is an artist that I was intrigued by his portrayal and the techniques used in his paintings. In this paper, we are going to look at the implementation of Morrisseau's painting style used to expose his philosophies of different aspects in his life.
Rikki Tikki is a brave and curious character in this story. Rikki-Tikki- Tavi is brave in this story because he sticks up for his family and he doesn’t care how big or how small they are. Evidence that supports my character traits is, “Rikki-Tikki knew that he was a young mongoose and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind.” (page 9). Rikki-Tikki’s bravery towards his family gave him the confidence to fight the snakes. His bravery showed his foster family how much he really cared about them. Rikki- Tikki examined the entire house and puts himself in daunting positions (paragraph 15). This evidence shows that Rikki-Tikki is an interested character because he doesn't show that getting hurt will stop him
Out of the plays that we could have chosen to produce, I have decided to go with Molière’s, “Tartuffe.” This play is a comedy that comes from 17th century France and is heavily influenced by two large sources of experience for Molière. Those sources are the rules and structure for a play put in place by the French academy and the lessons of improvisation taught by the Commedia dell’Arte. This piece is written in fives acts that are in a unique alexandrine style of verse which have 12 syllables in a line and usually ends with rhyming words. The reason I chose this play is because, in my opinion, things like television, movies, plays, and other forms of media and entertainment are meant to transport you away from all the bad things happening in real life and focus you on something fun and/or interesting. I find this play to have a lot of fun moments that can be mined for even more comedy and I think it has the good chance to keep a large audience entertained for a long period of time. To accomplish my goal I will use elements of situational comedies, France in the 1660’s, and one of Molière’s plays, “A school for girls.”
Heroes. Everyone wants to be a hero, but sometimes, people lose sight of what a true hero really is. It does not have to be someone who flies around and saves innocent people from perilous monsters. A hero is simply someone that inspires others. In Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior was a hero because he rose above the expectations the world placed on him through his courage, passionate determination, and sympathetic perception.
During times of war, man is exposed to the most gruesome aspects of life such as death, starvation, and imprisonment. In some cases, the aftermath is even more disastrous, causing posttraumatic stress disorder, constant guilt, as well as physical and mental scarring, but these struggles are not the only things that humans can take away from the experience. War can bring out the appreciation of the little things in life, such as the safety people take for granted, the beauty of nature, and the kindness of others. These universal consequences of fighting all contribute to what war is really capable of doing, sometimes bringing out the best and worst in people, and constantly shaping society. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien goes through this himself when he writes about setting up base camp in the Vietnamese pagoda, the return to site of Kiowa’s death, the story about the old poppa-san guide, and Mitchell Sanders’ “moment of peace”. When O’Brien includes these stories, it is not to insert joy into a tragedy, but rather to create a more wholesome and authentic feel into a tough, realistic war story. O’Brien’s’ “sweet” stories are there to show the hope he had during war, and also serve as a universal example that even in the darkest tunnels, it is always possible to find rays of light.
Hero is a word that is commonplace in our society. We seem to always be able to turn on the latest news story and find the newest local man who saved that beautiful kitten from that building that was burning down. When we say hero a vast array of different definitions come to people’s minds. Our definition of hero in our world is most definitely not a constant. In the Epic of Gilgamesh and the novel Monkey many would consider the main characters and their strongest companions nothing close to heroes but rather tyrants. I have to say that these people have defined hero too narrowly, and I must prove them of their folly. Monkey and Gilgamesh, despite the many sins they commit, highlight what it truly means to be a hero, reminding us to always aspire to greatness.
According to Webster’s dictionary, a tragic hero is a protagonist that is otherwise perfect except for flaws that are intrinsic to his or her character, which often leads to his or her demise. In Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo, the protagonist was unlike tragic heroes such as Oedipus, Iago and Beowulf, because he was not born into nobility, but had to rise to fame and earn respect through his exceptional stamina, hard work and his historic unrivaled success at defeating the famous Amalinze the Cat. Like Beowulf and Oedipus, Okonkwo shares traits that are characteristic of a tragic hero. These traits exposed his mortal fear of failure, his fear of weakness and his fear of becoming like his father who was lazy and poor. Okonkwo also possesses an unwavering pride and an irrepressible anger. Fear, pride and anger are some of the traits of a tragic hero that were inherent in Okonkwo, and this paper will seek to explore how these traits contributed to his downfall Okonkwo’s connection of manliness with rage, ferocity and recklessness eventually leads to his downfall. Okonkwo finds it difficult to accept the changes the Missionaries have brought to Umuofia. The missionaries changed the way the people of Umuofia think, leading to an irreversible division among the people.
Over the years, there have been many ideas of what a hero is. We all know the stories of superheroes like Batman, The Flash, Ironman, and The Incredible Hulk. Being a hero is more than being the strongest person around. There are everyday heroes that exist in our world. A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended. A hero could be a young boy helping an elderly woman cross the road. There is no exception. There are heroes all over ther world. all different shapes, races, and sizes. Chinua Achebe tells us the tale of an unsung hero named Okonkwo who lives in an Ibo village in Nigeria. Achebe’s Things Fall Apart demonstrates how Okonkwo is a righteous hero by showing how he handles every event in the rise and fall of his life.
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