![]() ![]() ![]() Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is the stupid nickname Anne, in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, gives to her meek pursuer, Octavius. Two things caught my attention: the title and the name Kipling. ![]() I found this story scrolling down my Scribd app. If you're looking for a summary, it's in the description. This is my rant/experience with the book. It's probably not for kids under six or so. Plenty of death, scary moments with snakes hiding in the bathroom. It's a delight-not quite up to the impossibly high bar set by Just So Stories or Kim, but a pleasure to read and Rikki is a total little hero! Three and a half stars.Ĭontent rating PG: This is more violent and scary than the Just So Stories. īe sure to watch this video while declaiming the poem that begins this story about brave little Rikki: But mongooses are different- everyone should love these feisty critters. This classic harks back to my recent India reading challenge-the one that started me on my now infamous Around the World challenge. "This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.Īnd Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice Learn about the mongoose's resistance to snake venom. Someone to mend my socks, and then partner up with my "watchdog" when a killer comes calling. I could use a tailorbird like Darzee, too. And then, when the danger has passed, to nose curiously into everything, for "Run and Find Out" is the mongoose motto (rather destructive little pets, so they say.) We all need a mongoose in our lives, an unrelenting guard-dog to watch over the bungalow while we sleep. (Did Rowling name Valdemort's cobra, Nagini, after them?) Good thing little Teddy has a ferocious guardian - a mongoose, somewhat resistant to snake venom and oh so quick! He's ideally suited to tackle Karait, Nag, and Nagaina. (And plus, in the story, Kipling himself speaks up for the cobra's right to protect its turf.) If one slithered into your bathroom to kill your little boy, you'd go nuts, too. I love all creatures, but I don't want to hear anything at this point about the poor little king cobras. Written over a century ago, and set in India at an English encampment, it's comprehensible, heartwarming, and suspenseful. Kipling develops traits of curiosity, courage, determination, intelligence, and protectiveness. Excellent characterization of this fierce critter. The plot may be too scary or sad for some children, but yet I am heartened to see kids reading a few stories that are not sugar-coated. It's also available in several audiobook renditions. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is one of the stories in Kipling's classic, The Jungle Book, now in the public domain and free, via Project Gutenberg. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers." Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.Īwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If- (1910). Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. ![]()
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