“Have you ever her of a mongoose or how they live?” Well do not feel bad most people haven’t. A mongoose has a very distinctive life. In this story called “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by: Rudyard Kipling”, a mongoose has to do what mongooses do best, they have to kill cobras to protect himself and sometimes other people. It’s a very silly and entertaining story but the the story does not leave out the meaning of family and friendship with is the main point here. I am doing a paper on the similarities and differences between the two characters I choose. I choose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the female snake Nagina. Rikki-Tikki and Nagina have two traits in common. The first trait they share is that they are very slick. What I mean by that is the fact that they