Rikki Tavi Character Analysis

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Rikki Tikki Tavi should be called a hero and only a hero. When given the choice to fight for what’s right, he takes it and works through it with the best possible solutions. Rikki shows his heroism and courage by making sure all good is safe and all evil is destroyed. Nobody is safe until Rikki Tikki Tavi fights to make sure they are. Each step taken by Rikki shows his heroic characteristics and thoughtful thinking. An obvious way Rikki Tikki Tavi shows his heroism is in saving people. In the book he saves Teddy and his family and the tailorbirds directly, “...Teddy's mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy's father said that he was a providence…” (Kipling, 4). He saves