Mongooses are small animals that can easily kill cobras. Cobras are large snakes that have hoods that they open to try to frighten the mongooses and their prey. The story is about a mongoose that lives in India. In the summer he gets washed away from his home and a human family finds him. The family like him and they decide to keep him and name him Rikki-tikki-tavi. The family is lucky they found Rikki-tikki because he saved them multiple times from the cobras that lived in the their garden. The book Rikki-tikki-tavi was also made into a movie and they have a few differences.
The book was almost the same as the movie, except for a few aspects. The problem in the story was the cobras and how they wanted to get rid of Rikki-tikki because he…show more content… The problem in the movie was how the cobras tried to kill all of the family so they could get rid of Rikki-tikki. Nag and another cobra named Karait attempted to kill Teddy and his father. Rikki-tikki succeeded in stopping them both times. The climax in both stories were slightly different. In the movie Rikki-tikki was more curious about what Nag was doing in the bathroom. Rikki had found Nag curled around a pot in the bathroom and saw that he was waiting to kill someone in the family, so he jumped on Nag and killed him. The fight between Rikki-tikki-tavi and Nag was very violent in the movie. Except for the bathroom scene, Rikki did not do much fighting. The resolution was when Rikki killed Nagaina and smashed all of her eggs. When Rikki-tikki confronted Nagaina in the movie with her last egg he was not being really careful with it and he might as well have just given it to her, while in the book he actually put up a fight. There were a lot of similarities in both the movie and the book and it had an interesting plot. There were not a whole lot of differences in the story, so if you like one then you will like the other. Rikki-tikki-tavi was still a great story when it was either a movie or a
