Rudyard Kipling

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…

In 1896, after being inspired by the raid, Kipling composed a poem titled If-, which instantly drew much attention and admiration in Great Britain. As a matter of fact, the poem itself has been rewritten and printed in a multitude of languages throughout the years. This instructive piece of poetry contains a diversity of themes; three of the major themes being masculinity, leadership and defeat. Although the poem was composed in 1896, it was not until 1910 that it was published in a book called…

Stellar award winning singer, song writer, actress, fashion designer and activist, Kierra Valencia Sheard, also known to the world as “KiKi” is whom I decided to write my paper on. Kierra was born on June 20th, 1987 in the city of Detroit, Michigan. She was raised up in West Bloomfield, Michigan within a family of great talent within gospel music. Kiera is the daughter of Karen Clark-Sheard of the Clark sisters and Bishop John Drew Sheard. Kierra is also the grand-daughter of the late gospel…

Bob Kiley was a boy who went off to war and did not come back. He became Rat Kiley, a man who would shoot through his own foot to escape the war (223). “They were kids; they just didn’t know. A nature hike, they thought, not even a war…” (69) Only nineteen years old, and Kiley loses his best friend to a rigged 105 round. Before that point, he and Curt Lemon saw it as an adventure, playing around with smoke grenades, laughing, telling jokes. Then Lemon dies, out of nowhere, and Kiley is forced to…

running through your mind. Was fear one of them? Did you try to protect what was the most important to you at the time anyways? Theme is a life lesson or big idea for literary works supported by textual evidence. In the story “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling, the theme is that courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important. For instance, Rikki-tikki and the snakes are somewhat fearful of each other, but they still fight courageously to…

“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…

The White Man’s Burden, 1899 published in the McClure’s magazine stands out as one of the most infamous literature works by Kipling. It has been reviled as the major articulation of the greediness of the countries of the West especially America and Europe and their encompassing ambitions on the orient. Kipling initially composes his poem for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria but later chose to submit it as a hymn. A summary of the poem articulates several things about the…

Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik (Gillibrand) was born in Albany, New York on December 9, 1966. She is the middle child of Polly Edwina and Douglas Paul Rutnik. Both her parents are attorneys, and her father also worked as a lobbyist. Kirsten attended all-girls prep school in Troy, New York before enrolling in Dartmouth College. From which, she majored in Asian studies. Kirsten graduated magna cum laude in 1988 and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School. Kirsten took on the…

The character I chose is Rikki-tikki-tavi, he is from the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”. The author of this story is Rudyard Kipling. The Character Rikki-tikki is a mongoose who is taken in by a family and protects them from danger, such as snakes. Rikki-tikki fights hard to keep the family safe and to protect the garden. Three great qualities that Rikki-tikki have are that he his loyal, he is brave when Rikki-tikki and his family are in danger, he is humble about the way he protects the house,…

Analysis of a literary character The story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling tells how a courageous mongoose named Rikki-Tikki defeated two dangerous and vicious black cobras single-handily in a bungalow in India. At the beginning of the story, a human family adopted Rikki-Tikki after a summer flood washed him away from his burrow. Then while living with the family, Rikki-Tikki had discovered Nag and his wife, a pair of cobras who had been very dangerous to the animals in the garden.…