Rikki Tavi Character Analysis

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Rikki Tikki Tavi was a mongoose just trying to get into a human family home, so he could accomplish his goal. All he wants is to find a human family that he can stay with, basically as a pet. He’ll protect the people from snakes and other dangerous creatures. It’s all a nice time until Rikki starts doing things that aren’t normal functions he would do as he was raised to not be a jerk. Rikki Tikki has always acted like a normal mongoose. He had been roaming along the roads to find a home after a hurricane that went through town. A family finds him over on the road and takes him in. Now he does protect the kid one night from a snake that appeared in his room that night, but he then later starts eating the eggs. That’s just a weird thing to do to someone else’s kids. That is just a weird and pathetic way to behave when meeting new animals in a garden.
Rikki Tikki had kind of bullied or was mean to other animals. He “killed” Nagaina but it was more like a prank. It isn’t a funny type of prank that he pulled, it was more of a harmful trick towards her husband and friends. As being new to the garden and stuff it’s understandable why he is kind of more weary and questionable, but still, that’s a weird thing to do the day after you get to this family’s home. He had …show more content…

He could have been just looking around since it was his first official day there, but that wasn’t the exact reason. He actually was going to the place that the snake kept her eggs so he could eat them. The weird thing is that he didn’t actually tell anyone that he was doing this, he just ran off. He had the idea of eating the eggs so they couldn’t harm anyone else, which is a good idea, but you’d be killing something important to someone else. They could actually be useful or helpful in the outside world like capturing unwanted rodents. With Rikki Tikki being sneaky about this, it tells how he was being a jerk and had reacted in a disrespectful