Rikkki-Tikki's Human Characteristics

In the story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” the three main topics we talk about are Rikki tikki,Nagaina, and last the theme of the whole story.
First, Rikki-tikki has many human characteristics. For instance, “I didn’t so you must tell me, quick, Chuchundra or i’ll bite you”(Kipling 14). Even though Rikki-tikki is courageous he is still very aggressive at times with other animals. Instead of speaking nicely to the mouse he threatens chuchundra. Not including all the parts where Rikki-tikki is mean he is mostly caring about others. Another example is “His tail began to fluff up again,”marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?” This shows that even though Rikki-tikki just moved there he is already defending animals he barely knows. These are the character traits of Rikki-tikki-tavi. …show more content…
You can already see that nagaina is very rude and evil to everyone else except other snakes. “I am sure to catch you. Little fool look at me!”(Kipling 24). Instead of saying it in such a mean way she could have said it politely to Darzee’s wife. She could have even rephrased it a little to make it sound less rude. Nagaina is very cruel ,but beside that she is very protective as a mother and a wife. She actually admits that she was also getting revenge for her husband’s death when she is almost about to strike at the little boy.“He will have to go away,and then our garden will be our own again”(Kipling 16). They thought it would be a safe place to raise their children that’s why there was no commotion in the first