'An Analysis Of Richard Adams Watership Down'

Examining the formal qualities of Thomas Birch’s painting An American Ship in Distress was very interesting. This paper will analyze and illustrate what I saw in this particular piece of artwork. The paper will also discuss the art elements such as line, shape, color, texture, scale, and composition of the artwork.

     The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Schott Card. It is about a young boy who is sent to battle school. He meets friends and makes adversaries. In battle school, out in space, Ender, the young boy is a genius and is taught many tactics to destroy their prime enemy the buggers. He excels in school and battles his way into command school before the required age. There he is told he is battling buggers in simulations or is he? Throughout the novel, Ender is manipulated, bullied, and isolated, which creates many themes and messages. In this novel Ender’s Game the main theme is life is a game. Three characters that best prove this are Ender, Peter, and Bonzo.

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

Ender's Game is author Orson Scott Card's best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary, the plot of the novel is a story about a young child, Ender Wiggin, taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

endgame, in which players try to rapidly develop their pieces, gain room for their pieces to

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

One central idea of Watership Down is that Hazel succeeds as a leader by valuing his comrades’ abilities, showing respect and kindness towards them and considering everyone’s opinions. Bigwig has strength and instincts that Hazel knows will be beneficial on the rabbits’ long journey. As Bigwig returns from his exploration of the opposite bank of a stream, Hazel says “’I’m glad he’s with us. He’s the fellow to find out all we need to know”(35 Adams). Hazel’s believes that Bigwig bears a marvelous tenacity and strength which is proven true when Bigwig makes it back across the stream with news of a loose dog. Not only does Hazel show gratitude and courtesy to his old friends, but also newcomers. Bigwig gives Blackavar

Ender’s Game is a story about a genius young boy who is chosen to fight off the buggers, an alien race that attacked earth twice already. Ender is put through large amounts of non stop training at the “Battle School” which is located in space. Part of everyone’s training is a game that consists of 2 teams, and either team must try to get to the opposite team’s gate. Ender graduates from “Battle School” and moves on to command school. There he is put in charge of a fleet in a simulation with some of his friends commanding the ships that are in the simulation. Ender eventually has to take

After outperforming his beginners group, Ender is promoted to an army, in which he is the youngest member. He proves himself superior to this army as well as the following armies he is transferred to. Ender is then given the role of commander along with his own army. He trains this army with diligence and is “...eager for [a] battle” after just a few weeks(Card,175). Ender is ready to take on a challenge after just four weeks, even though it typically takes three months for an army to prepare itself. This is one example that proves how far ahead Ender is than his competition. Ender takes pride in showing others that he can not be beaten. He confides to one of his soldiers that “‘... [he] can’t lose any games’”(Card,198). Ender does not want anybody to believe that he is vulnerable, since he has gone through much trouble to rise above the rest. He keeps up this winning streak for many laborious weeks, made up of nonstop battles and training. After this excessively fatiguing period of time, Ender is both mentally and physically exhausted. He tells his army that he does not “‘...care about their game anymore…’”(Card,221). Ender has long since lost his passion for the game, and has decided that he is done playing on the adults’ terms. At the point in the story when everyone is relying on Ender, he does not have a sufficient motive to fulfill his duty, so he has to to be continuously pushed by his peers, family, and

But after they settle in the field, Hazel comes to realize that they need some female rabbits to mate with. Next, Holly and Bluebell, which are two rabbits from their previous warren, come to tell them the news that a terrible poisoning had occurred. The news hurts the rabbit group deeply but they know that they cannot go back to their previous warren, since it is destroyed. Then, the group of rabbits befriend a wounded bird named Kehaar, and after he heals the rabbits use him to their advantage. They use Kehaar to fly and search for other warrens that they can live in.

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government” Thomas Jefferson. In Richard Adams Watership Down, the rabbits in the story all live in groups on separate areas of land. These areas are called warrens, and there are three main warrens that will be discussed in this essay. Each of the three warrens have a different type of governments being run inside of them. The Sandleford Warren, the Efrafa Warren and the Watership Down Warren are all ran differently. Each warren has modern world equivalences relating to their governments. In the following paragraphs you will be able to see which modern world government matches up, and is present in each of the three warrens in Watership Down.

Haw overcame his fear of change and moved into the maze searching for new cheese" As he started running down the dark corridor he began to smile haw didn't realize it yet but he was discovering what nourished his soul. He was letting go and trusting what lay ahead for him, even though

“Endgame: The Calling” was written by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. The book is about a historical and mythical game called “Endgame”.It is a modern day setting with lots of mystery. In Endgame there are twelve lines of people going way back into ancient times, from those twelve lines come one “Player”. The Player is the one who will decide the fate for the world and their line. No one knows when Endgame would come so every newborn who is a part of that line goes through training for Endgame even if it's not certain that they will be a player. Each line is different in culture, and in training. Each person has to go through gruesome training even with the possibility they might die from it, if they were going to be a player, they had to be ready for it or else their whole line will die and most of the entire world.For example, Sarah of the Cahokian line, learned in her training how to catch an arrow from out of

Since the beginning of time, people have written about things they love. As time goes on, writing has become more and more detailed. “At the Bay”, by Katherine Mansfield is about the place where she grew up, and her appreciation for that place. Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888. She also spent her childhood there. She finally moved away at the age of nineteen. In the excerpt from “At the Bay”, Katherine Mansfield expresses her love and appreciation for the nature, memories, and routine of the place of her childhood.