There are some similarities as well as differences in Rikki-tikki-tavi the book compared to the movie. Rikki-tikki-tavi written by Rudyard Kipling has some differences from Rikki-tikki-tavi the movie. Rikki-tikki-tavi the movie is the same concept as the book. Some differences between the two are the characters, the setting, and the conflict of the story.
One thing that can have a difference is the characters from both the book and the movie. In the beginning of the book Teddy’s mother took Rikki-tikki inside the house after the monsoon. Where-as in the movie Teddy’s father took Rikki-tikki inside the house. “Here’s a dead mongoose. Let’s have a funeral.” “No”, said his mother; “let’s take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn’t really dead.” (Rikki-tikki-tavi) These were two different characters doing different things in the book and the movie. A similarity is in the book and the movie the mother didn’t want Rikki to sleep with Teddy in fear that he might bite him. This is the same thing the same character said in bothe the book and the movie. The characters were all …show more content…
In the book the house the family lived in was one story, and in the movie you see a scene where Teddy is going down the stairs therefore the house is two stories. In both the book and the movie the setting takes place in India. “This is a story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed,through the bathrooms of a big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.”(Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling) A bungalow is a house with only one level, this is a difference between the two because the house in which they lived is different in the book and the movie. Rikki-tikki meets darzee out in the garden in both stories, and the garden is where a lot of events take place in each tale. This is a way that the setting in the book is different from the setting in the