Tikki Tavi Quotes

Imagine the fierce red eyes of a weasel-like creature following your every move. This grizzled furred omnivore is someone you shouldn’t mess with, especially if it’s Rikki Tikki Tavi. Rikki Tikki Tavi, by Rudyard Kipling, is a story about Rikki Tikki, a young, feisty mongoose, who comes wandering into a bungalow in India, which he then runs into some inferious beasts in the garden, Nag and Nagaina, a pair of 5-foot long King Cobras. Likewise, it leads RIkki TIkki into warding off the 2 from the garden behind the bungalow, even if it leads to death. Although Rikki Tikki seems like a hero for the creatures dwelling in the garden, he might not seem as thorough and gallant as you might think at a first glance. Rikki Tikki´s shows many character
The story displays many situations where Rikki Tikki was courageous, and I will name a few. A piece of evidence proving that Rikki Tikki is courageous is when he says to Nagaina, ‘Yes, you will go away, and you will never come back; for you will go to the rubbish heap with Nag. Fight, widow! The big man has gone for his gun! Fight!’” (pg.25). This quote shows that Rikki isn’t afraid to fight Nagaina, even if the outcome doesn’t turn out the way he wanted it to, as long as the family of 3 he lives with is safe. Likewise, Rikki Tikki fights to the death with Nagaina. As expressed, Rikki Tikki won’t back down to a fight, even if he won’t live to have another
He demonstrates these attributes when he threatens Nagaina to hurt her last egg if she doesn’t fight, even though he’s risking his life, for being courageous, when he is slinking by a dozing Nag, and then ends his life with a fatal bite to the back of his head, for being cunning, and when he smashes 24 eggs right then and there at the melon patch, for being cruel. Rikki Tikki is a precise example of that even though you think you know someone’s characteristics, you might only see the tip of iceberg. Like for Rikki Tikki, you probably weren’t expecting him to be cruel, because he looked like a hero, at first. Traits are basically the roots of who we are, and who we’ll be. We might never find the true personality of you and me without