“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Argumentative Essay In the short story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, the theme is clearly good versus evil. The snakes Nag and Nagaina represent the evil in this theme. They show atrociousness and selfishness by trying to kill the the nice family to gain control of the whole garden. Most of the story is about the conflict between Rikki and the two snakes. Throughout the story I thought of certain traits for the characters. I feel that Nagaina is very threatening and Nag is resolute. The reason why they have these traits are not good, but wicked. In the story Rikki had heard the crying from Darzee because one of her fledglings fell out of the nest and the snake ,Nag, ate it. “One of our fledglings fell out of
