3rd Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

3rd Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Watership Down by Richard Adams. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1972.
Genre: Fiction

Watership Down is a story about brother rabbits named fiver and Hazel who live in a warren. One day fiver senses that something horrible is going to happen, but the leader of the warren does not believe him. he brothers decide to leave the warren on their own. They are joined by a few other rabbits. This pack of rabbits travel through fields, woods and rivers in order to find the perfect location for a new warren. Along the way they meet new rabbits that join their adventure. There are many troubles on their quest but eventually they all settle down and make a new warren.
"I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself."

This book shows how even in a group of people that all want the same thing, those people will still go through rough times. It shows how the rabbits perserveared and kept on fighting for what they wanted, to make a new warren and escape danger. In this story Richard Adams foreshadows what is going to happen by giving Fiver the ability to have visions about what is going to happen. This book is like any other adventure sory except it is much more realistic in the way that he ban of rabbits go thoruogh various problems.

“General Woundwort's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them. Such was Woundwort's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him.”

In this story the rabbits think that war is bad and are trying to avoid it.
this made me think that that is what counties today should do and think. What I like about Richars Adams is that he foreshadows what is going to happen in the future.