A Character Analysis Of Tikki-Tavi, By Rudyard Kipling

Rikki-tikki-tavi is the main character in the story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Rikki is an almost new born mongoose that got washed onto an Indian bungalow by a terrible flood, and was taken under the wing of an English family. The Mother, Father and their son Teddy . While exploring the garden he found that there was a great conflict between the snakes and the rest of the people, that Rikki was going to fix. He is a helpful, valiant, and daring mongoose. The first character trait that Rikki-tikki demonstrates is being helpful. At the beginning of the story Teddy walks out of the bungalow and says, “oh, look here! Our mongoose is killing a snake” (20) the snake that Rikki killed was Karait that was causing havoc in the garden, Rikki was being helpful and stopping the havoc by killing Karait. In another situation in the story the father says ”...the little chap has saved our lives now
At the end of the story Rikki was trying to kill Nagaina, Nag's villainous wife. They were both trying to get rid of Rikkis family by killing them so their kids could have room to grow. This plan got side tracked when Rikki-Tikki was very daring by provoking Nagaina and smashing her eggs. Moments after Nagaina was already mad Rikki did this “...Brought Rikki-tikki up to her, and as he plunged into the rat hole where Nag used to live.”(26) This was a truly daring move because it is like going into the enemy's home it is a maze for you but the enemy knows it like the back of his hands and can strike whenever he or she wants. Now that I have stated all of my character traits I will sum the whole essay up. I believe that Rikki-tikki is a very helpful, valiant, and daring mongoose I have proven my point several times throughout the essay and I believe that I have very good points. I have chosen these character traits out of many more because I believe that he demonstrates these traits the