Rikki-tikki-tavi was written by Rudyard Kipling. This story was from “The Jungle Book, Volume Two.” Rikki-tikki-tavi, also known as Rikki-tikki, was a mongoose who’s home was flooded one summer day, was found by human family, and then was taken in. In this story, Rikki-Tikki had different actions for each event, but he had reasons for this. He was loyal, but had to act differently sometimes to save his owners lives and everyone else's life as well. Even at times he was rude but other times he was sweet. Rikki-Tikki had a lot of stress and had to act differently for a reason. When Rikki-tikki was asking why Darzee was so sad, Rikki-Tikki found out who Nag was. As Nag was talking to him, Nagaina (Nag’s wife) charged at Rikki-Tiki from behind, but Rikki-Tikki jumped out of the way. Rikki-tikki became very angry after this. When Nag and Nagaina left, Rikki-tikki didn’t even care to go after them, but he want to manage two snakes. This makes sense of why he had to do this action, sometimes characters just have to or let go before getting the things they need. …show more content…
The little muskrat was crying out saying “don’t kill me.” Rikki-tikki explained that he wouldn’t at all and that he was a snake killer. Then Rikki-tikki said, “quick Chuchundra or I’ll bite you!” This was a jerkish mood, but he had to say it just to get Chuchundra to talk. Rikki-tikki also acted like a jerk to a bird named Darzee. Darzee was singing about how Rikki-tikki would win, but wasn’t really listening to Rikki-tikki. Instead of Darzee helping Darzee’s wife helped. Rikki-tikki called Darzee a stupid tuft of feathers and told him “is this the time to sing?” Once again this is another jerkish move, but he needed some bait to help draw out