Two-Chunk Academic Essay
“There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear” I know someone who says they have never been afraid only frightened. “Oh, it’s you,” said he. “What are you bothering for? All the cobras are dead; and if they weren’t, I’m here.” If Rikki Tikki Tavi is brave what are Darzee and Chuchundra? The theme of the fictional story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is family is worth more than anything. Rikki Tikki is a curious character in this story
There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.”
What is the matter?” asked Rikki-Tikki.“We are very miserable,” said Darzee. “One of our babies fell
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Have you ever heard where she keeps her eggs?” “My cousin Chua, the rat, told me—” said Chuchundra, and then he stopped. “Told you what?”
“He saved our lives and Teddy’s life,” she said to her husband. “Just think, he saved all our lives.”
“I have settled it all”; and then 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
Rikki Tikki Tavi is a very curious mongoose in the story Rikki Tikki Tavi.
Nagaina, another character in the story is
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He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife.
“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush, but Darzee had built it out of reach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro.
Rikki-Tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry) and is similar to Nagaina lifted up her head and hissed, “You warned Rikki-Tikki when I would have killed him. Indeed and truly, you’ve chosen a bad place to be lame in.” Rikki-Tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals.
Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the veranda and she gathered herself together like a watch spring.
Nagaina gathered herself together and flung out at him. Rikki-Tikki jumped up and backward.
Nagaina another character in the story of Rikki Tikki Tavi is a very mean character.
The author, Rudyard Kipling, uses personification in this story to help demonstrate the way animals can not talk.
She caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the