Watership Down Analysis

Good leaders ensure the world continues to advance. In contrast, bad leaders allow cruelty to spread and are often over controlling, taking away the freedom of their people. Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a story about rabbits trying to establish a warren, a society. Hazel, the main character of the book, has been informed that his warren is in danger. He leads a group of rabbits to try and start a new warren in a better environment, away from peril. While trying to find this location, Hazel and his rabbits stumble upon another warren, Efrafa. The secretive warren is led by a fierce rabbit, General Woundwort. Though Hazel and General Woundwort are both leaders, they lead in two distinct ways. Hazel and General Woundwort are drastically different leaders because they take power in contrasting ways, have incongruent methods of leadership, and view their role as leader differently.

Through assessment of the overall themes, trends, and patterns of the nuclear and extended family, the Sinclair family has been through many conflicts and stresses, and each family member has fought hard to maintain and keep the family connected together, despite long distances, separation, addiction, developmental delays, aging, and many more stressors. Though there are many theoretical approaches to take with the Sinclair family at any given point in “Down in the Delta”, including Family Development Theory, Family Systems Theory, Family Crisis/Stress, or Social Exchange Theory. This paper will focus on Structural

The first important ideology that helps develop rabbit culture is leadership. It is clear from the very beginning of the novel how important the leadership role is to rabbits; the leader makes all decisions which in turn affect the entire community of rabbits. An example of this is seen after Fiver has his first visions and wants to discuss leaving the warren to Threarah, the chief rabbit. Threarah decides that it would be better to stay because of the huge risk and task it is to move the entire community of rabbits; the more hidden truth to this would be the fact that he is already the highest rank a rabbit could be and if moving turns out to be a bad decision, he has everything to lose. After several more scenes the reader finds that Threarah made the wrong decision by staying as all of the rabbits were gassed and killed by humans; the entire community was killed because of Threarah’s

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power,” says Lao-Tzu. The rabbits in Watership Down that are aspiring leaders deal with a constant battle that relates perfectly to Lao-Tzu’s quote. Some gain power through their stature, others through their wit, but the truly effective leaders use the ideal attributes both from themselves and the rabbits they are leading. The desire for power in this novel is exhibited through aspiring leaders that lead in their own best interest and those who lead in the best interest of their community

There are two types of leaders; the type that leads humbly and fairly, and the type that leads with force and intimidation. Both of these can be found in Richard Adams’ Watership Down. When danger seems to be approaching the Sandleford Warren, a group of rabbits gather and leave to form or find a new warren. Throughout their journey, a leader emerges; Hazel. The group also encounters an area called Efrafa, ruled by General Woundwort. Hazel and General Woundwort are complete opposites, specifically in how they became a leader, how they lead, and how they view their own role as a leader.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, directed by Gore Verbinski, is one of the most influential pieces of cinema in the disney movie franchise. The movie was well received by the majority of people that viewed it. However, not everyone was as impressed with the movie, like film critic Roger Ebert for example. While Ebert, at the time working as a film critic for Chicago Sun-Times, gave the movie three stars, there are some critiques that are incredibly incorrect. The article focuses a lot on the stellar performances of Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, Jack Sparrow and Barbossa respectively, while making light of the respectable performance of Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann. He also spends a good segment of his review bashing the action scenes and deeming them pointless based on the plot of the movie. Overall, Roger Ebert believes the movie was decent, but went on for far too long, calling it, “a nice little 90-minute B movie trapped inside the 143 minutes of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (rogerebert.com). There is an argument to be made about Roger Ebert’s rollercoaster ride of a review on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially concerning his opinions on the performances of some of the actors and the fighting.

In Part IV of “The Boys in the Boat,” Brown continues to elaborate on the challenges Ulbrickson and the boys were facing to find a perfect boat. He finally makes the boat with the addition of Joe Rantz. Now, Ulbrickson just needs to worry about Ebright’s crew that seems to the press to be doing great. Both universities race on Lake Washington and Washington sweeps the regatta. The boys now needed to think about their next journey. If all went well, then they would not be back until September(many months away). Washington recieved a magnificent sendofff to Poughkeepsie at the train station.

“There was a time when El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle were in a completely different part of the world. Some say that it’s a strange place, and others say that it’s just like here, only with some different plants and animals. All I know is that there are plenty of rabbits there, as there are everywhere. The rabbits had explored every part of that land, except for one place: the Burning Valley. Rumor always said that it was a terrible place, full of elil and bad air and poison. While travelling through that other part of the world, El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle came upon a group of rabbits, looking to start a warren.

The story begins with Fiver, one of the main characters, receiving a type of vision that shows him the horrendous, gory future for the rabbits and their warren that will soon be taken over by men. Fiver then tells his brother Hazel, another one of the main characters, and Hazel warns the rabbits of the warren. The majority of the warren doesn't believe them, however some rabbits are convinced and flee the warren with the brothers to seek a new,safe warren. This part of the

“This world, where much is to be done, and little known” (Dr. Johnson). You live in one place your entire life and become accustom to its rituals, rules, and people. Sometimes when you stay in one place for so long you grow to know very little of what else the world has to offer. Hazel, Fiver, and the rest of the rabbits begin the book in the Sandleford Warren. As every other warren does, it has its own set of laws, beliefs, and government that created an atmosphere the rabbits had to adapt to. Most of the rabbits grew up and knew of only this warren and grew accustom to it’s lifestyle. Although the rabbits knew somewhat that there was more in the world than that warren they didn’t know what that world consisted of. The rabbits learned throughout

Watership Down takes place in Sandleford Warren, Enbrone Crossing, Newton Common, and Cowslips Warren, Frith Copse. In the front of the book it has a map which shows where the rabbits have lived and traveled. The rabbits first lived at the Sandleford Warren; however one of the rabbits, Fiver, had a vision that danger was coming. A group of rabbits went with Fiver and his brother, Hazel. The first headed toward Enbrone Crossing. “It was in fact the little river Enbrone, twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain, but to the rabbits it seemed immense, such a river as they had never imagined.”(Adams30) In this story it is May. It’s May, isn’t it? (Adams 12)

When a young rabbit named Fiver has a prophetic vision that the end of his warren “Sandleford” is near, he persuades seven other rabbits to leave with him in search of a new home. Blackberry is great at inventing stuff like a raft. Dandelion the story-telling rabbit, has a favorite story about the mythological rabbit hero named El-ahrairah. They find a rabbit named Cowslip who leads them to his home warren that seems like paradise, but there are odd things about this warren.

Throughout Watership Down the rabbits encounter different forms of elil, and they respond to them in different ways. In the novel, all the elil, whether it is the rabbits, cats or dogs, seem to circle back to humans who are the biggest form of elil in Watership Down. An example of this would be when the humans destroyed Fiver and Hazel warren, and Holly, who was there when it happened, said, "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals." With the events that Holly described when their warren was raided, one of the ways the

After joining they notice various things wrong with him like how he completely ignores major problems and acts like he did not hear the question being asked.. Or, how he ignores any rabbit that dares to ask a question beginning with the word “where”. After they noted this they soon realized, with the help of Fiver, they were on a farm rigged with snares by the humans and that the one reason Cowslip wanted them in his warren was so they succumb to the traps first. This is why Cowslip would have anyone who mentioned the wires killed in fear of disrupting his false sense harmony. “To say ‘Where?’ was bad enough, but to speak openly of the wires- that was intolerable. For that they would scratch and kill” (Adams 116) Cowslip is a pernicious rabbit who will take any actions to prevent rabbits from questioning things and ruining balance. Watership Down is a well read novel for its contrasting characters that develop overtime and help the reader immerse himself in the

“Wake up, the sun is up and it's time we look for the warren!” The gray Rabbit kit banged his foot impatiently. He turned his shining blue eyes to look over the green expanse of field and hill. Hrrrrrr! Goose twisted his ears around, his head then followed, as a green tractor whirred to life. Now we’ll never get