Rikki Tavi: Rudyard Kipling's Analysis
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In the story “Rikki Tikki tavi” by Rudyard Kipling, Rikki and Darzee are more different than alike. Rikki is a mongoose and Darzee is a Taylor bird. Even though Darzee is feather brained Rikki is very strategic.
Darzee is a feather brained bird. Kipling wrote “Darzee was a feather brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea in his head” (pg 395). This explains that Darzee is feather brained because Kipling says he can’t hold more than one Idea in his head which is what feather brained means. Rikki shows that he is strategic. Rikki says “‘Look at you eggs’ said Rikki-Tikki, ‘in the melon bed near the wall. Go and look Nagaina!’” (pg 397). This proves that Rikki is strategic because he knew Nagaina wanted her eggs so she