Rudyard Kipling's Rikki The Hero

Rikki is a valiant and loyal character in this story. To illustrate, “Rikki-tikki killed Karait by biting him to save Teddy from him.” (para 34). As a result, Rikki-tikki proved his heroism and loyalty by preventing Teddy from getting killed by Karait. Rikki-tikki had the determination to do anything to protect the ones he cared for. Also, “Then Rikki-tikki came up and cried: “Turn

The theme of the fictional story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is having courage will help achieve goals. Rikki-Tikki is a very determined and brave character in the story. For example, Rikki-Tikki stands up to Nag when he eats Darzee’s fledglings (paragraph 25). This piece of evidence shows that Rikki-Tikki has courage because he had the willpower to stand up to Nag even though he has never met a cobra before and was scared.

Papa Smurf is a beloved character from the 1980’s popular cartoon about small blue creatures that live harmoniously while fighting against the evil wizard Gargamel. At a whopping 546 years old, Papa Smurf has the responsibility of caring for the whole Smurf village, and to do this he uses only love and affection to guide his fellow Smurfs and protect them from things such as the evil wizard Gargamel. Papa Smurf is wise in many ways that correlate to Monika Ardelt’s three dimensional theory of wisdom. Papa Smurf can be said to have become wise from his many years of experience. He keeps up on what is happening around the village and when a problem arises he handles it notably by brewing up a magical potion solution, or offering up useful advice.

“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a young mongoose who is taken in by a english family in India. Rikki shows as if he was fighting a war, and that no matter what happens he will keep everybody safe, at whatever cost. Rikki has a whole lot of courage, strength, and selflessness. First, Rikki shows a whole lot of courage when “she plunged into the rat hole where she and Nag used to live, his little white teeth were clenched on her tail and he went down with her” (and every mongoose knows not to follow a snake into their hole, otherwise there’s a huge chance that you won’t be alive for much longer) he knew that a mongoose should never go down into a snake’s hole.

Furthermore, when Heracles is a baby, he”sat up and immediately set out to kill his enemy’s”(Rosenberg and Baker 217). The significance of this is when he was very young he was able to show how strong and courageous he was by killing the serpents. Furthermore, when he was able to do that his parents developed fear about the fact he was able to that when he was 8 months old. In addition, they were concerned about him in the future. (Rosenberg and Baker) However, Theseus goes on his quest as an adult.

Alexander Melvin Johnson was the best super hero spy in the world. His job was to save people that needed his assistance (just like any usual superhero spy would). There was one twist to Alexander 's though… his spurious identity, nobody even knew he existed. So whenever he saves someone his bright blue eyes and big cheeky grin ends up in the newspaper (like it always did) but, everyone would always be wondering who is that guy. On one bright August morning, his assistance was needed a young girl.

(Para 96) It is an example of personification because cobras cannot fly. It proves the theme because instead of fighting Rikki Tikki for the egg cowardly grabbed the egg and ran for her life. This proves that Rudyard Kipling demonstrates the theme courage by using personification. In conclusion, the theme of Rikki Tikki Tavi is being courageous can help you accomplish anything. In the story Rikki Tikki Tavi, a mongoose named Rikki Tikki is washed away in a summer flood and was taken cared of by a family in the bungalow.

Nemo has a greater truth as well. Nemo’s greater truth was to always listen to your parent, no matter what, they just want to keep you safe. The heroic journey follows the story of Marlin, a tiny clown fish who is terrified of everything even his own shadows. Like all other stories, Marlin’s hero’s journey started with his call to adventure. His call to adventure first started by taking Nemo to school, then realized he got captured by a group of divers.

He proves that he is a great leader and isn’t easily affected by conflict. He says, “[I] shouted out to him in my rage, ‘Cyclops, if anyone asks you who it was that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty, say it was the valiant warrior Odysseus…’” (96-98). As he and the remainder of his crew are leaving the island, he yells back to Polyphemus to make sure the Cyclops knows exactly who he is. Odysseus additionally shows he can easily trick others. He says,  “...three times did I fill the bowl for him, and three times did he drain it… then, I saw the wine had got to his head” (12-13).

Crooks goes through life without a true friend and no one to talk to. He has gotten used to no one giving him the time day. It is quite apparent that he loves to talk and tell stories, even to strangers. The relationship with Lennie, although brief was extremely meaningful to Crooks. Lennie’s personality makes it easy for people like Crooks, Candy and George to want to take care of him, want to spend time with him and are comfortable in talking to him.