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Riki Tiki Tavi’s story is very exciting and adventurous. Riki Tiki is a young but very brave mongoose and is an assassin that kills snakes. He is also known as Riki Tiki the valiant the brave. According to Darzee. The Title of the story and movie is Riki-tiki-tavi and is by Rudyard Kipling. In class we compared the differences and similarities of the movie and story. There are many similarities and small differences in the story and the movie. The director sure did a good job of keeping them as similar as possible. A similarity I found in Riki-tiki-tavi was that Naig did the same things in the movie and story. He started and ended the same as the story. He even says the exact same things. When Naig met Riki-tiki

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