By Vinicius Desouza
And
Franciso Gonzalez
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Characters
• Rikki Tikki Tavi is brave and full of curiosity
• Nag and Nagaina are characterized as pure
evil.
• Middle School kids would like this story
because it’s like a superhero story.
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plot
• After a flood happens, Rikki tikki tavi got
washed a way into a ditch and then a family
finds him. They take him inside their house
and Rikki tikki becomes the little boys pet.
Then Rikki explores the house.
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Also in the story, Nagaina jumps into a hole
with Rikki Tikki Tavi, and the animals think
Rikki Tikki Tavi will be killed.
Did he survive?
Mongooses have fast reflexes and thick skin.
Who will win?
Click here to see a real mongoose and a
cobra fighting.
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theme
• If you try really hard, you accomplish what
you set out to do.
• This is a good theme for middle school kids
because it shows them that they can
accomplish anything in school.
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imagery
Ex. “One day a high summer flood washed him
out of the burrow …and carried him, kicking and
clucking down a roadside ditch. He found a
little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it
till he lost his senses.
There is a lot of detail and description that helps
you picture Rikki in your head.
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Figurative language
“He could fluff up his tail until it looked a bottlebrush.’’
Kipling uses similes like this one all through the
story. We can just imagine what Rikki looks like
when he is ready to fight.
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Word choice
• “She [Nagaina] had crept up behind him as he
was talking, to make an end of him; and he
heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed.”
Kipling selects words that show how Nagaina is
scary, sneaky, and evil.
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The author
The story by Rudyard Kipling would be great to
include because he’s popular for writing books
about animals like The Jungle Book even though
he lived a long time ago. He was born on
December 30, 1865, in Mumbai.He won the
1907 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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