There was a Coppersmith bird who told the village that “Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead-dong! Nagaina is dead! Ding-dong-tock!”. That statement caused “all the birds in the garden singing and the frogs croaking” (Kipling 156). However, the movie didn’t mention the bird at all. There was also a mention of red fire ants that went into Nagaina’s hole to see if she really was dead, but in the movie there were no mention or sighting of the fire ants anywhere. There were also characters that were kept the same, for example Rikki Tikki. The movie also kept Darzee, Darzee’s wife, Chuchundra, Nag, Nagaina, the dust brown snake, the boy, the Englishman, and the woman. The Coppersmith bird and the red ants may have been left out of the movie because of the minor role they played in the movie. These were some of the differences and similarities in the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the movie and the
There was a Coppersmith bird who told the village that “Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead-dong! Nagaina is dead! Ding-dong-tock!”. That statement caused “all the birds in the garden singing and the frogs croaking” (Kipling 156). However, the movie didn’t mention the bird at all. There was also a mention of red fire ants that went into Nagaina’s hole to see if she really was dead, but in the movie there were no mention or sighting of the fire ants anywhere. There were also characters that were kept the same, for example Rikki Tikki. The movie also kept Darzee, Darzee’s wife, Chuchundra, Nag, Nagaina, the dust brown snake, the boy, the Englishman, and the woman. The Coppersmith bird and the red ants may have been left out of the movie because of the minor role they played in the movie. These were some of the differences and similarities in the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the movie and the