Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Rikki-Tikki-Tavi from The Jungle Book.
Coming of Age Quotes
One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. (3)
Man & the Natural World Quotes
He spent all that day roaming over the house. He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing-table, and burned it on the end of the big man's cigar, for he climb...
Good vs. Evil Quotes
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. (1)
Courage & Bravery Quotes
At the hole where he went inRed-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.Hear what little Red-Eye saith:"Nag, come up and dance with death!" (Epigraph)
Philosophical Viewpoints: Postcolonialism Quotes
"Good gracious," said Teddy's mother, "and that's a wild creature! I suppose he's so tame because we've been kind to him." (11)