The author, Rudyard Kipling wrote a very good story, titled “ Rikki Tikki-Tavi”.
It is about a mongoose and a cobra and how they really can’t interact together. Nagaina, a main character, is very vicious and sly, but she is also a very protective mother who wants to keep her baby eggs safe, as any mother would do. She knows that ¨a mongoose in the garden meant death for her and the family sooner or later¨. Nagaina tries to kill Rikki-Tikki, the mongoose, but she only makes things worse for her and her family. The only reason she wants to kill him is because she is very defensive of her family and doesn’t want her baby eggs to get killed. She wants them to live so that when she and Nag have died, their children can become the king and
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Her vicious nature is shown by the fact that she not only wants to hurt Rikki-Tikki, but also the big man who he lives with. Instead of their plan going the way she wanted, it backfired and Nag ended up getting killed. In the morning Nagaina comes looking for Nag and finds him in the rubbish heap pile. She is very mad and sad and comes up with yet another way to kill Rikki-Tikki and possibly the big man and his …show more content…
The next morning she goes to Rikki-Tikki’s home and catches the little boy while he is eating and positions herself so that if the little boy moves his leg just an inch she will strike at him. So while Nagaina is with the family, Rikki-Tikki is in the melon bed crushing all of Nagaina’s eggs but on the last one Darzee flies to tell him that Nagaina has his family trapped. So he rushes back holding the egg and see’s the little boy just a couple of inches within Nagaina’s mouth. As Nagaina is about to strike she hears Rikki-Tikki’s voice behind her say, “what price for a baby cobra, a king cobra”. She turns around quickly but soon realizes her mistake as she loses her chance to kill the little boy. “Give me my egg Rikki-Tikki and I will leave and never come back”. But he wants to fight and get rid of her, so they fight and Nagaina after a couple strikes leads Rikki-Tikki into her snake hole. He goes in and after a couple minutes Rikki-Tikki emerges out of the snake hole and says, “Nagaina shall never come out of the snake hole