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    (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

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    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

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    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

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    In the novel, “Watership Down,” Richard Adams, Adams includes three warrens in the novel. First, we come across the Sandleford warren. Next, is Hazel’s warren. The final warren is Cowslip’s warren. All three warrens have their similarities and differ. One way Cowslip’s warren differs from Sandleford and Hazel’s warren is that it is perceived as a utopia. The reason for this is because the rabbits there are strange rabbits. These rabbits are fed by a farmer; only to get eaten at the end. But these

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    Ellis defines the relationship between Adam and Jefferson; They bickered a lot, but in the end they reunited. Rebellion demonstrated how weak it was when it went up against politics. Political, cultural, and religious beliefs divided the Americans; War was not a very strong issue at the time. The root of friendly relations is quite essential proceeding to distinguish affairs and affiliations. In the face of being the fluky team with contradicting outlooks

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    In the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, the lapine vocabulary is used as the language between the rabbits. For instance the word Flayrah is used to mean unusually good for, e.g. lettuce. This is important to the plot because it plays into what the rabbits will do for Flayrah. Also it differentiates between food that is mediocre and food that’s worth venturing into human land and fighting for. “Well, the man's gone by and Cowslip and I thought the flayrah ought not to lie about for long. If

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    Richard Adams’s Watership Down There are many intriguing and fascinating lessons and thoughts that can be extracted from Richard Adams’s Watership Down when inspected under a “magnifying glass.” From those many issues, the one that is the most influential to ourselves is the issue regarding anti-segregation, portrayed ingeniously by Richard Adams through Hazel within many different cases in the novel. Out of those many instances, this essay will discuss two of them, explain how they display the

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    joke or reference or a major theme in the film, they are intended to keep the adult audience engaged and thinking. In 1978 Nepenthe Productions released the animated film, Watership Down, based off of the 1972 book of the same title written by Richard Adams. Through the eyes of a child the movie was non other than a film about a group of rabbits escaping their home, which is being destroyed, in hopes of finding a new place to reside. You may want to believe this movie is just about rabbits, but through

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    first glance, Watership Down by Richard Adams and Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, do not share many things in common, however, politics and political corruption are predominating throughout both. The novels are both allegories for politics and its power to corrupt, demonstrating how radical views can sometimes ruin a society. On one hand, Watership Down suggests that standing up to that corruption is the only way to insure a just and equal society for all. Indeed, Adams’ heroes go through extreme danger

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    Watership Down

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    The extraordinary novel, Watership Down, by Richard Adams is an adventure filled, meaningful piece of literature published in London around November 1972. Although the plot is about a group of rabbits struggling to find home, the story can be interpreted as so much more. Of course the book can be interpreted differently especially as times change. The general meaning however remains intact. This piece is a great example of an author speaking their voice through writing. The beginning of the novel

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