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How does Rudyard Kipling develop the setting of the garden in “ Rikki Tikki Tavi ”?

How does Rudyard Kipling develop the setting of the garden in “ Rikki Tikki Tavi ”?. In this lesson you will learn how to analyze an author’s word choice by visualizing the setting. Short story from The Jungle Book Author: Rudyard Kipling in 1894 Setting = Where and When.

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How does Rudyard Kipling develop the setting of the garden in “ Rikki Tikki Tavi ”?

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  1. How does Rudyard Kipling develop the setting of the garden in “RikkiTikkiTavi”?

  2. In this lesson you will learn how to analyze an author’s word choice by visualizing the setting.

  3. Short story from The Jungle Book • Author: Rudyard Kipling in 1894 • Setting = Where and When “RikkiTikkiTavi” This the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.

  4. Reread and identify the words that • describe the setting. 1 2 • Ask, “How does this help me visualize • where the story takes place?” 3 Ask, “Why did the author choose to do this?” Jot down your answer.

  5. Reread and identify the words that describe the setting. Then Rikki-tikki went out into the garden to see what was to be seen. It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes as big as summer-houses of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass. What words describe the setting?

  6. How do these words and phrases help me visualize where the story takes place? • large garden • unorganized • large bushes • lime and orange trees • clumps of bamboos • thickets of high grass

  7. Why did the author choose to use words that help the reader visualize?

  8. How does Rudyard Kipling develop the setting of the garden in “RikkiTikkiTavi”? • Kipling uses descriptive words and phrases, such as “bushes as big as summer houses.” • This comparison helps the reader visualize an unfamiliar setting. • The author chooses to do this to help us make a picture in our mind.

  9. 1 • Reread and identify the words that • describe the setting. 2 • Ask, “How does this help me visualize • where the story takes place?” 3 • Ask, “Why did the author choose to do • this? Jot down your answer.

  10. In this lesson you have learned how to analyze an author’s word choice by visualizing the setting.

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