Loyalty In Rikki-Tavi, By Rudyard Kipling

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha. You may know what it feels like when you’ve done something you didn’t have to do for a friend, or relative that you didn’t really want to do but you felt like you had to. Like in the story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, when Rikki shows his loyalty to his family and friends through his self restraint, showing that loyalty is a binding force. Rikki Tikki is a loyal and courageous character in this story.This quote from the story shows the theme of loyalty is a binding force. “Well,” …show more content…
When Rikki-Tikki is proud of keeping the garden safe, we can infer that he is loyal to the garden. In this example from the text Rikki-Tikki demonstrates his loyalty to the garden through personification, “Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.” This excerpt from the text shows Rikki-Tikki displaying self control a distinctly human characteristic.This can be used to show his loyalty to the garden by pointing out that that instead of devouring Karait he decides that, if he wants to protect the garden he could not eat Karait.As can be seen, Rudyard Kipling uses personification to show the theme of the story, loyalty is a very binding