Watership Down by Richard Adams

(Interesting title at work) (Attention grabbing quote at work). Watership Down by Richard Adams is a timeless tale told from multiple perspectives within a group of rabbits venturing into the unknown in hopes of finding a new home. With great leadership and an unique ability shared between a pair of brothers, the band of rabbits come upon new lands to call home. Hazel, brother of Fiver and leader of the herd of rabbits, goes through many different personal changes as a rabbit, from being a clueless

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

Would you read a book about adventure, survival and brotherhood? What if it was about humanity and nature? Now, what if it involved bunnies? Watership Down is an award winning book by Richard Adams. Described as ‘redefining anthropomorphic fiction’ by critics, the book won both the Carnegie medal and the Guardian children’s prize. Tackling big ideas, the author weaves an adult tale of human struggle disguised as a book about bunnies. Besides granting the powers of speech and intellect, he has gifted

Endgame. noun. The late or final stages of any activity. This is what the young protagonist Hazel wants throughout Richard Adams’ novel Watership down. Hazle just wants to reach the end of all the mind games, in a world of lies and deceit, he must work to achieve a place of justice and fairness. He kicks off as a meek but smart rabbit not knowing where he belongs, but blooms into the leader the rabbits need to guide them through all the challenges they will face when they leave home. He thinks

the Thousand Enemies and how they are a threat to the rabbits, especially El-ahrairah. Humans are presented as one of the “Thousand.” The author of the book, Richard Adams, displays man in a negative way because of this. Man is portrayed as violent, nonsensical, and abusive to the natural way of life. In the book, Watership Down, Richard Adams portrays the life and style of man in a negative way. In both their old warren and on their journey, the group of rabbits encounters urban development and the

Analysis of Richard Adams' Watership Down Richard Adams novel, Watership Down, is the account of a group of rabbits trip to search out a new location to inhabit. After escaping the Sandleford Warren because of one rabbit’s instincts, nearly a dozen rabbits cross virgin country. Along the way, they run across a few other warrens. These places exhibit a completely different way of living to the fleeing group. What they learn is vital when they develop their own warren. From these places they manage

Evil takes a prominent role in the classic adventure novel Watership Down, and the author, Richard Adams, introduces many old and new reactions to evil as the story progresses. Richard Adams makes his point very clear, there is evil everywhere on Earth, and it can even be present the downs of the English countryside. Richard Adams explores this idea of evil through many different forms: foxes, badgers, birds, humans, and the earth itself. The novel shows the readers these responses so, in turn, the

Conflict of Styles     The success of any group is determined by those who lead it. In Watership Down by Richard Adams, a band of rabbits leave their warren when one of them feels that danger is coming. They encounter several struggles before they settle down and create the Watership warren. An attempt to extract does from another warren called Efrafa starts a rivalry between the two groups, lead by Hazel and General Woundwort respectively. Hazel and Woundwort are two vastly different leaders. Hazel

1. 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

Richard Adams’ exceptional construction of setting in Watership Down greatly assists the preservation of this literary masterpiece. Although being set specifically in the British countryside, Adams’ vivid recreation of the area and landscape that he knew best allows for clear visualization and understanding from a reader of any background. The dire consequences that arise in this seemingly most unlikely and tranquil of places assist the narrative in presenting itself as a serious novel that serves