Watership Down Character Analysis

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Even in the most democratic and equal societies typically have a leader. This leader typically sets precedents for customs and culture which then transcend to his followers. In the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, Adams portrays a group of human-like rabbits that go through an incredible journey to institute the perfect home for themselves. These rabbits face hardships and failure, although the leader of the warren isn’t quite known at first, Hazel, a young buck that leads his friends and others, and becomes the dominant leader for the rabbits
Hazel, an average size rabbit with brains and heart as large as a human that he characterizes through the novel, becomes the leader at Watership Down, the name of the rabbit’s warren. Furthermore,

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