Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a mongoose in the story of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. In the beginning of the story Rikki was swept away by a flood to a bungalow in India, here he will meet a new family and they take him in as their own. Here he will have many trials with new people he meets and will have to fight a “great war.” (16) Rikki-Tikki becomes very curious, heroic, and fast while in his new home in India. First, was when Rikki-Tikki was taken in by his new family he was very curious about everything in his new home, He spent all day roaming over the house. “He nearly drowned himself in the bath tubes and put his nose into ink on a writing table and burnt it on the big mans cigar. “For he climbed up on to the big mans lap to see how