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Rikki Tikling Bravery

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Bravery is a hard thing to accomplish. I had to run away from a pitbull and that took a lot of bravery, Rikki-tikki is a mongoose that a family found in their backyard and they made big feelings with this mongoose that was very protective. Who was the main character in this story/article.Therefore this story was called Rikki-tikki-tavi.The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is “Love brings out the bravery in you and in the smallest things.”

Rikki Tikki is a brave character in this story. For example “Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away, that bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner” (para #34). This shows Rikki-tikki’s character trait because he fought a dusty snakeling. This trait demonstrates my thesis because he killed Karait which was a dusty brown snakeling and his bite is as dangerous as …show more content…

For example “Who is Nag,” said he. “I am Nag. The great God Brahm5 put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid!”
(para #23). This proves that the author uses personification in the story to show the mood or what is going on in the story. This personification proves the theme brave because Nag is face to face with a mongoose. In addition Rikki-tikki told Nagaina to “Look at your eggs,” said Rikki-tikki, “in the melon bed near the wall. Go and look, Nagaina!” (para #88). This example of personification proves that the attitude of the text now if ferice. This prove the theme because Rikki-tikki is being brave by telling Nagaina that he has the last of her eggs. Last Rudyard Kipling used personification to demonstrate the attitude of the

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