In “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” Riki tiki and Nag struggle to fight each other. Rikki-tikki-tavi decides to fight Nag and move in with the people that found him. Nag and Nagaina are cobras with vicious tempers. The characters all have different personalities, and the narrator switches between the point of view of Nag, Nagaina, and Ricki Tiki. One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.

There are so many different point of views of Ricki Tiki. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it ‘till he lost his senses. When he woke up, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very groggy. A big man picked him up between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked so the people that found him took him into the …show more content…
They wrapped him in cotton wool, and warmed him over a little fire, when he got warmer he woke up. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up, put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small boy's shoulder. Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck, sniffed at his ear, and climbed down to the floor, where Riki-Tiki sat rubbing his nose. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better. "There are more things to find out about in this house,"