No, I don't think it is dead. We should take it inside.
Rising Action
I won't let you kill Teddy and his family. I heard your plan about killing the whole family.
One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his fatherand mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a littlewisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he waslying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path...
Climax
TEDDY! DON'T MOVE AN INCH
One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.”“No,” said his mother, “let’s take him in and dry him.”
Falling Action
Hurray! The mighty Rikki-Tikki has saved all of us.
He may have that stick still, but when he comes in to bathe in the morning he will not have a stick. I shall wait here till he comes.
Reselution
What would we do without you! You saved all our lives!
Rikki-tikki put his paws one on each side of the egg, and his eyes were blood-red. “What price for a snake’s egg? Nagaina spun clear round, forgetting everything for the sake of the one egg. Rikki-tikki sawTeddy’s father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across thelittle table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.
If you move, I will bite, and if you don't move I will still fight.
Hey Nagania, look what I have. If you hurt them I will break you egg.
Rikki-tikki shook some of the dust out of his fur and sneezed. “It is all over,” he said.“The widow will never come out again.” And the red ants that live between the grass stemsheard him, and began to troop down one after another to see if he had spoken the truth.
“'He saved our lives and Teddy’s life,” she said to her husband. “Just think, he saved all our lives.'”