Today, I didn’t have any special thing to write about, so my mom told me to write a story retell. This is what I wrote:
A young English boy named Teddy went outside to explore. He found a small mongoose in the road. The mongoose called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, had thick hair and a bushy tail that made him look like a cat. Teddy brought the mongoose home. Teddy’s dad told Teddy to dry the mongoose off. At bedtime he climbed into Teddy’s bed. The next morning, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi went to the garden outside the house. He heard a sad song and he saw the songbird, Darzee. One of her eggs had fallen out of her nest and a snake had eaten it. The snakes Nag and Nagaina were evil snake cobras. A big snake came towards Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. He was scared. The snake told him that his family had ruled the garden for thousands of years. Nagina, Nag’s wife tried to bite the mongoose but missed.
In the night, the mongoose heard a sound. The evil snakes were in the house! So, he went to his parent’s bathroom. There was Nag and Nagina! Nag whispered a plan to his wife, Nagina. The plan was to scare the people and to force the mongoose to go away. The mongoose heard the plan. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s eyes became red. Suddenly, he heard a crack. Teddy’s dad had hit Nag in the head with a stick. Nag died.
Then, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi went to the garden with a plan. The mongoose told the songbird, Darzee, the plan. Darzee went to distract Nagina while the mongoose went to find Nagina’s eggs. The bird fluttered down the path and Nagina followed closely. When Rikki-Tikki-Tavi carried of the last egg, Darzee flew close to him and told him that Nagina had trapped Teddy and his parents on the porch of the house. So, he went to the porch. They sat down to eat but none of them moved. The mongoose distracted Nagina and told Nagina that he had all the eggs. But he would give the last egg he had carried away from the garden. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi started a wicked fight on the porch with Nagina. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi forgot the egg. Nagina went to get the egg and raced off into the garden. The mongoose followed Nagina. The mongoose followed Nagina into the hole and the fight started again. Suddenly, the grass stopped waving and the animals thought the mongoose had lost. However, Nagina had taken the egg and never came back to the garden. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi had saved the family.
I like this story because I learned courage from the mongoose. He was so brave. I hope I have courage like the mongoose.
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