Aurora Dittberner
Mrs Dittberner
Literature and Composition
(Finishing date)
“Watership Down” The Qualities of a Leader In Richard Adams’s “Watership Down” the reader will be introduced to a multitude of characters, sub characters, places and colonies. The inhabitants and the culture of these colonies mainly depends on the leader and their morals, both in this book and in the real world as a result of their having been set examples, both admirable and unadmirable by their leaders, or, in some cases, they are too afraid of their leaders to resist them. In the greater amount of (or perhaps, all) of these colonies the leader believes that complacency is the best answer, that if they do nothing about the obstacle it will reseed. Hazel is also …show more content…
The first characters the reader will meet are Hazel and Fiver, two brothers from separate litters (Hazel is the eldest) with completely different characteristics. Hazel is a born leader, quick witted and with a decided air about him that will convince rabbits of his point. He is willing to listen and to learn, but will push his point if he feels it is right, and, due to these and various other qualities, he eventually becomes leader of the Watership Down warren. Fiver, on the other hand, is a follower. He dislikes ordering others around, but he will speak his mind about matters he has a ‘feeling’ about.He is prone to psychic trances and visions and he will, occasionally, become so lost in them that he has no control over what he says and does. Throughout the book the rabbits are saved time and time again by these strange visions and feelings. But Fiver is not the only one who has gotten the team out of a rough spot by speaking …show more content…
He is, and always has been, a leader. He was orphaned at a young age, having to watch his mother be killed savagely by a weasel. He was rescued by a kind elderly schoolmaster who raised him until he was about a month and a half of age. Then, one night, he gnawed through the wire on his cage and escaped. He had remained a wild rabbit, even while he was in captivity and he had a savage nature, probably the results of severe PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]. He went on to conquer several different colonies and (owing to his father being shot and killed by a man who had discovered the family living too close to his garden) he gained a large phobia of humans, which lead to his crazed tyranny over his
Mrs Dittberner
Literature and Composition
(Finishing date)
“Watership Down” The Qualities of a Leader In Richard Adams’s “Watership Down” the reader will be introduced to a multitude of characters, sub characters, places and colonies. The inhabitants and the culture of these colonies mainly depends on the leader and their morals, both in this book and in the real world as a result of their having been set examples, both admirable and unadmirable by their leaders, or, in some cases, they are too afraid of their leaders to resist them. In the greater amount of (or perhaps, all) of these colonies the leader believes that complacency is the best answer, that if they do nothing about the obstacle it will reseed. Hazel is also …show more content…
The first characters the reader will meet are Hazel and Fiver, two brothers from separate litters (Hazel is the eldest) with completely different characteristics. Hazel is a born leader, quick witted and with a decided air about him that will convince rabbits of his point. He is willing to listen and to learn, but will push his point if he feels it is right, and, due to these and various other qualities, he eventually becomes leader of the Watership Down warren. Fiver, on the other hand, is a follower. He dislikes ordering others around, but he will speak his mind about matters he has a ‘feeling’ about.He is prone to psychic trances and visions and he will, occasionally, become so lost in them that he has no control over what he says and does. Throughout the book the rabbits are saved time and time again by these strange visions and feelings. But Fiver is not the only one who has gotten the team out of a rough spot by speaking …show more content…
He is, and always has been, a leader. He was orphaned at a young age, having to watch his mother be killed savagely by a weasel. He was rescued by a kind elderly schoolmaster who raised him until he was about a month and a half of age. Then, one night, he gnawed through the wire on his cage and escaped. He had remained a wild rabbit, even while he was in captivity and he had a savage nature, probably the results of severe PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]. He went on to conquer several different colonies and (owing to his father being shot and killed by a man who had discovered the family living too close to his garden) he gained a large phobia of humans, which lead to his crazed tyranny over his