How Are Rikki Tikzees Alike

In the story “Rikki Tikki tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, Rikki and Darzee are more different than alike. Rikki is a mongoose and Darzee is a Taylor bird. Darze is a tailor bird that had lost his baby when it fell out of a tree. Rikki Tikki is a mongoose from india that got swept away in a storm. He was cared for by a family and in the story he was wandering in the garden.

Darzee is a feather brained bird. Kipling wrote, “Darzee was a feather brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea in his head” (p.395). This explains that Darzee is feather brained because Kipling says he can’t hold more than one idea in his head which is what feather brained means. Rikki shows that he is strategic. Rikki says, “‘Look at your eggs’ said Rikki-Tikki, ‘in the melon bed near the wall. Go and look Nagaina!’” (p.397). This proves that Rikki is strategic because he knew Nagaina prized her eggs so she was focused on the eggs and then didn’t bite the boy Teddy. Rikki and Darzee are opposite.

Rikki says, “‘Not exactly,no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense, you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.’” (p.395). But Darzee ends up letting his wife do it instead. This means that he thought that distracting Nagaina was dangerous and was being afraid. Rikki shows that he is brave. Kipling writes, “Very few mongooses, however wise and old they may be, care to follow a cobra into its hole” (p.398). But Rikki did, and that is very courageous of him. Rikki and Darzee are opposites by their