Make You Go Wild: Comparing The Book And Movie

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The plot that will be read will blow people’s minds. It all started when a mongoose lost his way home from a flood and ended up in a beautiful garden. There lived a nice family and creatures like birds, and snakes. The plot in the two mediums, written version vs. movie, has the same subject, however, there are differences that will be found in this essay.

This part will make people saying, “ooh...ahh”. The written version of this, written by Rudyard Kipling, will make you go wild. Rikki-tikki-tavi now had a problem. The problem was that he got washed away by a flood from his family and Nagaina and Nag wanted to kill Rikki-tikki. At midnight, Nag and Nagaina was planning to kill the family, so Nag went inside, hid in the bathroom’s sluice,

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