Richard Adams

Fivers Evolution “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Quote from Frederick Douglass. This quote was emphasized greatly throughout the novel Watership Down, by Richard Adams. Fiver, a dynamic character, is small and timid, but only because he sees far ahead of what most rabbits see. He knows that something bad will happen to the rabbit's home. Fiver guides the group through their travels, although it is indirect through his brother Hazel because he is not someone that the pack would exactly

The Rival of Leaders in Watership Down 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

Adam Richard Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. Adams parents were Judith Levine, was a teacher at a nursery school and his dad Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. Adam was of a Russian Jewish descent, at the age of 17 he would take his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian on the stage of a Boston comedy club, that’s when he found out that he was a natural comic. He nurtured his talent while still in New York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 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

Watership Down Have you ever wondered how rabbits lived? How they get food or sleep or live? This book tells you about that and it also tells of an adventure of a couple rabbits trying to find a new Warren. The beginning of the story start off in a warren. The two main characters are Hazel and his brother Fiver. Fiver is a special rabbit, meaning he knows when something is not right and can sense it. One night Fiver got the sense that something bad was going to happen to their warren. He told Hazel

The eastern cottontail rabbit is a species of the genus Sylvilagus. The eastern cottontail rabbit just as its name suggest is commonly found in the eastern U.S., eastern Mexico, Central America, Southern Canada and the northernmost part of South America. Eastern cottontail rabbits prefer their habitat to be in an open grassy area with shrubs in the area to use as places to escape predators. Nests called forms are made by eastern cottontail rabbits to use as an area to give birth. The nests are only

5 years later The deep green pool of the Salinas River lay disturbed in the late afternoon. A camouflaged frog cut sharply left and right in the shallow pool; back and forth, back and forth until it stopped suddenly. The valley was empty as the animals attempted to stay out of the unusually cold and bitter air; the day made even colder by the hiding sun and the biting wind. A slow, rhythmic crunching of dead winter leaves quietly interceded into the area, and as it grew louder what little wildlife

First there are many different different systems of power in the book Watership Down. There are four different warens with very different systems of power. The Sandleford warren is a warren where power is those with a title. The Watership Down and Cowslip warrens are both warrens where power is those with wit. The Efrafa warren is a warren where power is strength. Power is distributed between the rabbits by those with wit, strength, and a title. Additionally In the Sandleford warren power is given