Stereotypes In Watership Down By Richard Adams

Watership Down, written by Richard Adams in 1970, is a story centered around rabbits. The two main characters are Hazel and Fiver. When Fiver senses that there is danger in the warren, Hazel and Fiver go to the leader of the warren, Threarah and tell him that all of the rabbits must leave the warren because of danger. Threarah says it is too risky to move all over the rabbits and insist that there is no danger. Regardless, Hazel and Fiver decide to leave the warren and look for a new home.

Sometimes life’s greatest lessons are found in the simplest things. Implicit ideologies can be seen through film dialogue, book text, and even music lyrics. With a more profound level of interpretation, watchers can comprehend what is implicitly implied through a film's message. Pocahontas, the 1995 Disney movie, is an animated film about the legend of Pocahontas. Throughout, the film reinforces the ideologies of interracial relationships, the misinterpretation of Native Americans, and gender stereotypes in an effort to appeal to young children and teach them lessons about life. The song “Savages” taken from the film Pocahontas conveys a powerful message that not only transcends well beyond this adventurous tale. The lyrics of the song, “Savages” are offensive and declare war as if there is no other solution. In addition to that, the lyrics lack cultural sensitivity to both races, particularly to the Native American.

He is also always up for a risk even if it means that he is risking himself but he will not let others get harmed or left behind. He is always going to be confident by going someplace where he doesn't know what he is going to find. They left the original warren because Fiver says he can see into the future, he says something bad is going to happen soon so a couple of the rabbits leave and they gather more rabbits along the way. “‘Fiver and I will be leaving the warren tonight,’ he said deliberately. ‘I don't know exactly where we shall go, but we’ll take anyone who is willing to come with us’” (page 14). Hazel is strong and brave and is willing to go anywhere to help his friends from not being harmed by anything that they may come across. Being brave really helps the leader be a better leader than they already are because they are confident enough to do what is needed although it may scare them. Although Hazel got injured because of the men that came to kill and hurt the rabbits, he still powered through the pain and was a great leader even while he was hurt. Hazel was strong even when he go hurt from running away from the men and falling into a hole that he couldn't get out of. When Hazel was missing because he was in the woods and injured his friends were looking for him because they need him around for them to be safe. Hazel is great at doing what is needed like finding food to survive and helping others get where they need to be. Hazel is always super supportive, for example when they were at the new warren one day the went outside and they found an injured bird and Hazel demanded that they help him and make him get better. Hazel told all of the other rabbits to find food for the bird Kehaar. “‘I believe it's starving,’ said Hazel. ‘We'd better feed it. Bigwig, go and get some worms or something. There's a good fellow’” (page 181) Hazel is being a leader here because he is telling Bigwig to go

Hazel has a strong identity in the story, she has much self-confidence and is not afraid of letting everyone know that she is the best, “Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me. I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight.” p. 1 ll. 29-31. Thus her strong and proud personality, she still loves and protects Raymond and is not afraid of showing this either. At the end of the story Hazel’s view on other people changes, when she sees Raymond running parallel with her at the May Day race in his own unique style. She realizes that everyone is not just who she sees them to be, that there are more to people than you can

Stereotype; a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, and in the short story, “Geeks Bearing Gifts”, written by Ron Koertge, stereotypes are defied by ordinary people. In The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Darry Curtis face many struggles throughout their lives. Their town in separated into two: the rich and dangerous Socs, and the quiet, tough Greasers. For them, living dangerously is a reality. As a result of their lifestyle, Johnny has become fearful and Darry is considered the toughest man in the gang. In “Geeks Bearing Gifts” aspiring journalist, Renee, interviews her fellow classmates who are classified as “outcasts.” After meeting several students, she realizes her assumptions were incorrect about them. After reading both of these stories, the reader learns that our thoughts about others often revolve around stereotypes and assumptions, but most of these ideas that we have about other people are proven wrong.

The book Watership Down by Richard Adams, is a story that was once told to his children and has been put into a novel. The book shows us the ups and downs during a journey of many rabbits. These rabbits talk in their own language and embark on a crazy journey to a new land. Sandleford is the current home of the rabbits and their journey will take them to Cowslips Warren, there part time home. We will focus on life in Sandleford, the life in Cowslips Warren and the individual rabbits who chose to go on this journey together.

As hopeful and notable Hazels advancements in the warren are, Hazel has companions to assist him to become a better leader. All the previous chief rabbits in Watership Down were unfriendly and unfair, but with the navigation of his comrades, Hazel does his best to provide a more inclusive environment for the other rabbits in the warren. Hazel realizes that Holly possesses knowledge, experience and instincts that will be valuable on the rabbits’ long journey to Efrafra and he admits this by saying, “’I’m not the right fellow anyway -- Holly is’” (Adams 195). Hazel shows a considerable amount of faith in Holly by allowing him to lead the group on the adventure to Efrafra. His act of handing over the reins and letting Holly have so much control, shows that Hazel wants the best for the group and displays his forward-looking ideals. Hazel knows and trusts Fiver more than anyone

Third, Hazel is a person to admire since she’s humorous. Specifically, Hazel talks about her diagnosis with Stage four thyroid cancer when she was thirteen. “(I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die)” (Green 24). This shows Hazel is a person to admire since she is humorous because she jokes about the irony of her becoming a woman to soon be basically diagnosed with character and most likely dying instead of being depressed or self-pitying. Lastly, Hazel is a person to admire since she is smart. In particular, when first conversing with Augustus in the car, she mentions that due to her condition, she had to drop out of from high school, and she can’t go back since she already has taken her GED so now she taking classes from the local community college. This shows that Hazel is a person to admire since she is smart because although, she has dropped out of school, she was still able to take the quite tough test, GED, in order to do so, and seems to be fine taking college level classes at her age of sixteen. Therefore, Hazel is funny and smart, making her a person to admire. In conclusion, the main character in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster, is an admirable

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

In the Efrafa warren, Bigwig tricks General Woundwort by making a plan where Bigwig takes the rabbits who want to leave and runs away. Then a bird named Keehar scares away General Woundwort and his guards. In the story it states, “Out shot Rowsby Woof, bellowing like a bull, land tore around the house. The man followed him at a run, leaving the door wide. " 'Quick!' said El-ahrairah. 'Quicker than Wogdog from the Tartar's bow! Come on!' "El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle dashed into the garden and disappeared through the laurels. In the field beyond they paused for a moment.” This when Rowsboy opened the gate and El-ahrairah ran away. This is another example of how Hazel’s rabbits are influenced by El-ahrairah’s

The depiction of Hazel's Essex parallels to Hazel's distraught state: he progressing in finding himself but not without a difficult struggle. On the first drive after

Stereotypes run rampant in the literary world today. It is much easier to write a stereotypical character because of the reader expects them to act or respond a certain way and does not require an explanation of their motivation. But much like Chimamanda Adichie warns, “Show a people as only one thing over and over again, and that is what they become” (Adichie 00:09:25-00:09:37). But this issue is often addressed in reference to the protagonist. The hero is always white; the hero is always attractive. The hero never disserves to suffer. Single stories do not just refer to the physical characteristics of the character, though in can and often does. The heroes all tend to look the same so we associate goodness with that specific physical description, but motivations can be just as misleading. All the heroes do good things because they lived the same experiences, so these experiences make someone good. Also society remains so focused on the single story surrounding the protagonist, it often forgets the other main component of a story, the antagonist. But by dissecting the possible motivations for the villains, as my adaption does, I hope to explore the different avenues to villainy and in turn disrupt their single story.

Although, Hazel is courageous enough to “...hide the money…” (Bambara 450) from the “…big boys…” (Bambara 450) that take their money, she has fear as any other child would have. Ultimately the age of the narrator helps establish this sense of betrayal to the reader. Hazel sits in the “navigator seat” because she is afraid of “…sittin in the back with the pecans.” (Bambara 449)In fact, she says that “…if you scary like me, you sleep with the lights on…” (Bambara 449) because like most kids being in the dark scares them. This helps elevate the thought that the narrator is a young age because it shows child-like behavior.

At the beginning of the story Hazel mentions that his brother Fiver “can often tell when there’s anything bad about, and [he has] found him right again and again,” (Adams 11), but it isn’t until about halfway through the book when they realize that Fiver is reliably predicting what is to come. There is a moment when right before the rabbits from Sandleford warren enter into

One of the ways that Hazel’s faith follows him is through his subconscious. It is the voice in the back of his mind telling him that what he is doing in wrong. However, Hazel tries to suppress that voice and ends up hurting himself. While Hazel is stranded in Taulkinham he is constantly being mistaken for a preacher. His denial of any religious connection is returned with disbelief by his cab driver, and dismissal by Leora Watts. Hazel’s outrage at these misconceptions imply that his spiritual connection is visible to those around him, but he refuses to acknowledge himself. During the novel Hazel is extremely keen on opposing the idea that everyone is born with sin, and can only be redeemed by Jesus. However, subconsciously Hazel still believes in his faith, or the idea of sin. He is deeply affected by a sense of inner guilt, and feels the need to do penance through self-harm when he has done something wrong. Like when he puts the rocks in his shoes after sleeping with the Mrs. Watts. He did not find her