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Rikkki-Tikki: Comparing The Book And The Movie
Bravery should be your choice, not a bravado. Rikki-Tikki is a wonderfully told story of a weasel at war with two cobras. The story has also been produced as a movie. There are many similarities and differences between the book and the movie. The story and the book of Rikki-Tikki are similar in plot and setting, in characters, and in quotes.
The book and the movie have similar plot lines and settings. The book’s plot line is as follows: Rikki-Tikki was discovered by the family, taken in and fed, fought and met Nag and Nagaina, killed Nag, smashed all the eggs but one, and killed Nagaina and the remaining egg (Kipling). The book’s plot is very similar, without a single difference in the major plot line. The setting in the book is “the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment”
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The characters said the similar, if not the same, thing in the book as in the movie. Rikki-Tikki said that he would bite Chuchundra if he didn’t tell him what he wanted to know know in the movie and in the book (Movie). Darzee’s wife said, “‘The boy in the house threw a stone at me and broke it.’” (Kipling 152). The narrations were similar, if not the same, in both the book and the movie. The narrator had said that, “‘It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity’” in both the book and the movie (Kipling 144). The narrator talked about how the war happened in the beginning of the story and of Darzee, the tailor bird, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, at the beginning of both the movie and the book (Kipling).
The book and the movie are similar in many ways, especially the plot, the characters, and what the characters say. The similarities outnumber the differences, especially since the differences are so few and do not have much in common. The similarities are many and encompass much of the movie and the book. More movies should be similar to their corresponding book as this set

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