threatened his friend’s lives. Rikki-tikki is a lot like this because he shows his loyalty to his family throughout the story courageously fighting the antagonists Karit, Nag, and Nagaina. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is Those who are loyal are the ones who defend the ones who they love Paragraph 2 Rikki
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an entirely different poem and used this poem, The White Man’s Burden, to send to Theodore Roosevelt, who was governor of New York at the time. He sent this poem after spotting many different events across the Atlantic in the Spanish-American War. Kipling thought that sending this poem would help Roosevelt become aware of maybe losing power and an empire. All seven stanzas of this poem start with the same line “Take up the White Man’s burden—“ that goes into the second line that explains a different
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not stoop to less—/ Nor call too loud on Freedom / To cloak your weariness. / By all ye will or whisper, / By all ye leave or do, / The silent sullen peoples/ Shall weigh your God and you.” reads Ruyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden.” Rudyard Kipling, who was a well-known author around the turn of the century. He was a prestigious college graduate who had won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for writing. This tells us, the readers, that he is a very credible writer. Now, academically
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Rikki Tikki is a courageous character in this story.On paragraph 33 it says,” Rikki-Rikki's eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family.” this shows how courageous Rikki Tikki is. Rikki Tikki Tavi courage is very well shown with the example.Rikki Tikki Tavi’s action when he was getting ready for anything to come shows how courageous he isOn paragraph 96 says,”It was dark in the hole, and Rikki-Tikki never knew when
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scum, but those who leave their friends behind are worse than scum!” -Obito Uchiha. This relates to Rikki Tikki saving his friends and family instead of leaving them to die. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is do something others can't do for themselves. Rikki Tikki is a brave and courageous character in this story. For example, we see this when he follows Nagaina into her hole knowing that she had a better chance of killing him there. (para. 96)This
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Rikki’s Admirable Qualities Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a short story written by Rudyard Kipling. The story is about a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who is adopted by a British family who are living in a house in India. He was adopted not only to be a pet for the family, but to also protect the family from the dangerous snakes that live in India’s jungles. Rikki speaks to the other animals that live in the family garden and is warned of two very dangerous cobras, Nag and Nagaina. These cobras are angry
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ready to be petted. But just as Teddy was stooping, something wriggled a little in the dust and a tiny voice said: “Be careful. I am Death!” It was Karait. Has this feeling ever occur to you? The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is that has the people you love make you feel brave? Rikki Tikki is a brave character in this story. In fact “Then Rikki-Tikki came up and cried: “Turn round, Nagaina; turn and fight!” Paragraph 86. This shows that Rikki tikki is brave because
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compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” In the story, Rikki Tikki Tavi, Rikki Tikki loves his family enough to protect them from a deadly cobra. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is protecting who you love takes courage. Rikki Tikki is a courageous character in this story. To illustrate, “Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog—to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles, but his
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www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Empire and Excess: Kipling and the Critique of Said’s Orientalism Sourit Bhattacharya Edward Said’s Orientalism remains one of the most influential books of the last quarter of twentieth century. In an informative manner, Said locates the seeds of Orientalism right in the medieval European imagination that solidifies itself in the nineteenth century. It is through knowledge, power, reason, scientific
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world’s homeland of the Industrial Revolution have a fascination with adventure, feats of derring-do and the primitive? We look at a young reader’s Victorian adventure novel, the long-enduring The Coral Island, and the later short stories of Rudyard Kipling (the ‘Bard’ of Empire), and examine the (contradictory?) lure of the primitive, even as British modernity is taken for granted. Second, the module will proceed to examine some major Chinese and Japanese writers and intellectuals (and an Indian
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