Rikki-tikki-tavi
Vocabulary Powerpoint
Rudyard Kipling
• Rudyard Kipling, the
author of this story,
was born in India in
• 1865 to British
parents, but he
moved to England
when he was six
• years old and lived
away from his parents
for many years. “.
• Though it
• was common for
English parents living
in India or elsewhere
to send
• their children back to
school in England,
Kipling hated this part
of his
• life.
• .
Rudyard Kipling
• Early on, Kipling
worked as a journalist
and also published
stories
• and poems. In 1892,
Kipling married an
American, Caroline
Balestier.
• They lived in various
places over the years,
including America,
England,
• and South Africa.
During this time,
Kipling continued to
write and
• became very famous
all over the world. The
story you’re about to
read,
Rudyard Kipling
• “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,”
takes place in India,
where Kipling was
born.
• In 1907, Kipling was
the first English writer
to win the Nobel Prize
• in literature, the
highest award given
for literature. Kipling
died in 1936 in
London.
• Why do we need to
know about the
author before we
begin to read?
Animals of India
Black Panther and Himalayan
Black Bear
Red Fox and the tiger
Mongoose
• Mongooses are
rather small,
agile, weasel-like
carnivores native
to Africa,
southern Europe,
and Asia.
• Woodlands, Thick
forests; in dry
acacia brush,
mountain scrub,
abandoned
termite mounds.
• Diet
• Carnivore
Wild: beetles,
crabs,
earthworms,
fallen fruit,
grasshoppers,
ground birds &
their eggs,
millipedes, reptile
eggs, rodents,
scorpions, slugs,
• How are the animals of India different from
the ones in GA?
• Why?
Facts about India
• The population is
1,065,070,607 ( as of
July 2004)
• The area is 3,287,000
sq km.
• The speak Urdu or
Hindi and English
sometimes.
• Their currency is
counted in Rupees.
• The have their own
• Do you think you
would like to visit
India someday?
• Why?
revive – verb - to bring back
to life or consciousness;
resuscitate
cower - verb
crouch or curl up
consolation – noun – 1. The
act of consoling; 2. The state
of being consoled
scuttle – verb - to run or move
with short hurried movements
cunning - adj. - a
clear way meant
to trick or deceive
restless – adj. –
not able to be still
fledgling – noun - a young bird
cultivated – adj. developed for
human use
scornful – adj. with great dislike
mournful – adj. expressing
sorrow or grief
valiant - adj.- brave
and determined
gait – noun - way of
walking or running
immensely – adv.
- enormously
Characterization
• Static Characters
• Dynamic characters
• When we read be
• When we read be
looking for the
looking for the
characters in the story
characters who
who stay the same
change as the story
throughout.
moves along.
Prediction
noun
Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy
Idiom
noun
A speech form or an expression of a given language that
cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its
words
Personification
noun
A non-human object or being having human-like
characteristics
Conflict
Internal:
In literature and drama, a struggle which takes place within the individual characters
mind
External:
In literature, a struggle between two or more characters due to some outside force
Theme
noun
The subject matter of a conversation, discussion, story, etc.
The Theme of Rikki-tikki-tavi is:
“Don’t give into fear”
“Good Vs. Evil”
Perseverance
• Be thinking while we
read about which
character is showing
perseverance, how he
or she is showing it,
and why?