Quotes From The Story Rikki-Tikke

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What helps characters in the missions they go on?The characters in the stories have to be determined to complete the mission.In the stories Rikki-tikki-tavi and New directions the antagonists have a mission the drive to complete. In the story Rikki-tikki-tavi Rikki´s problem was to rid the garden of the 2 snakes nag and nagaina.In the story Rikki was determind when going aginst nag.Here is a quote from the story to prove my claim ¨Now if I kill him here,nagaina will know,and if I fight him on the open floor,the odds are in his favor,what am I to do?¨(Kipling 28).The evidence shows that Rikki was determined,because he sees nag in the tub and finds ways to defeat him and come out victories. The same thing happens in the

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