In this scene RTT shows strong work and ethic and ,loyalty.RTT inpacts other characters because he saves them from the cobra.when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.
In this scene RTT is listening to Chuchundra talk about chuchundra being poor,Chuchundra sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers. I am a very poor man, he sobbed. I never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room. H'sh! I mustn't tell you anything. Can't you hear, Rikki-tikki? ,I am a very poor man, he sobbed. I never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room. H'sh! I mustn't tell you anything. Can't you hear, Rikki-tikki? Rikki-tikki listened.
In the last scene RTT is very proud of himself for killing the cobra.Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.