For what purpose does Rudyard Kipling use figurative language in the short story, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"? The excerpt below is an example of figurative language
used for this purpose.
When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to
and fro exactly as a dandelion-tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki
with the wicked snake's eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake
may be thinking of

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

the objective should be switched

c. nature verses humanity is correct