Richard Adams

The success of any group is determined by those who lead it. In Richard Adams’ Watership Down, a band of rabbits led by Hazel leave their warren when one of them, Hazel’s little brother Fiver, feels that some sort of danger is imminent. They encounter several struggles before they settle down and create the Watership warren. An attempt to extract does from another warren called Efrafa, lead by the fierce General Woundwort, starts a rivalry between the two groups. Hazel and Woundwort are different types of leaders, where Woundwort is aggressive and controlling, Hazel is well-liked and humble. Hazel and Woundwort became leaders in different ways. After meeting Kehaar, a seagull that the rabbits found injured, they discuss the future of the warren,…

In Watership Down Richard Adams sets a fictional group of rabbits in England's’ Downs region using realistic places and references. Adams wrote using a style that emphasizes focus on a singular group rather than the whole world around said group. While utilizing a fictional, lupine dictionary for many common words, Watership Down, maintains interest throughout the entirety of the book with Adams’ phenomenal storytelling and, at times, acknowledgment of the reader directly. The book is…

Watership Down is a novel written by Richard Adams, about a group of rabbits ran away from their home warren and establish a new one. In Sandleford Warren, Fiver, a rabbit who can predict when is disaster is going to occur, tell his brother, Hazel, about something bad going to happen to warren. With the notice, Hazel and Fiver went warn the Chief Rabbit, Threarah, about the danger but the Chief does not believe them. Later Hazel convinced Dandelion, Blackberry and Pipkin to join. Bigwig, an…

Giving rabbits human qualities is a curious idea for a book. Nonetheless, Richard Adams took this idea and wrote Watership Down, a novel that follows a group of rabbits as they flee their warren. The band of misfits is led by a rabbit named Hazel who, at the encouragement of his brother, takes his people out of their old warren and leaving the promise of upcoming danger behind. They travel across farmland until they reach the downs and build their own warren, safe from the looming danger of men.…

Lewis the rabbit Hi, I'm lewis and I'm a rabbit I live on a planet “Humans” like to call Earth. Earth is pretty and lively but… I'm a rabbit so can't really go out in the streets I know all these phrases from the humans. I'm going to keep it simple and say I want to get out bad I haven't got the chance, but when I do i'm out of here. And the way i'm going to do it, Is a complex strategy of running out the door when no one's looking. Yep that's how I did it, I mean how i'm going…

Everybody has a dream, like In the book Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck repeats again and again “the dream” that Lennie and George have. You should start by knowing what the dream is. The dream is this little place in the forest secluded where they live off the fatta land. They have many different animals including the bunny’s which is really important too lennie. Also part of the dream is that Lennie really wants to tend the rabbits. This “dream” is repeated again and again…

Adam Richard Sandler, was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of five, Sandler and his family moved to New Hampshire where he and his siblings would grow up in a middle class neighborhood (McDonald, 2016). Sandler, who discovered his humorous talents at a young age, quickly became the class clown of his school. However, it was in middle school that Sandler began to develop his iconic sense of “wacky schoolboy humor” (McDonald, 2016). When Sandler was seventeen, he began…

Mr. Webster defines loyal as “having or showing complete and constant support for someone or something.” (Webster) Perhaps one of the most legendary stories of loyalty is that of Noah, whose story is told in the Old Testament of the Bible. Watership Down, a novel written by Richard Adams, is the story of two brothers whose loyalty to one another rivals that of Noah to God. Watership Down is a novel steeped in traditions and values, perhaps the most prominent of which is loyalty. Throughout the…

is innate. It's something we as humans are born, raised, and die for. Resilience is also learned, through choices as well as experiences, through life. For Indigenous peoples worldviews, resilience might as well be the descriptor for such views. Resilience is to withstand, to persist, to survive. To recover and evolve, to be sturdy, and elastic at the same time. Resilience outlines most current day Indigenous cultures and peoples. And is a chronicle of those of the past. Richard Wagamese and…

Watership Down Essay Test I remember a time when I felt I had power. It was when I had a task and I was watching over and controlling someone to do it. When people have power they will and can use it in different ways. They have resources, structure, and leadership. In Richard Adams book “Watership Down”, he explains that there are different warrens and they all use different means of power in their warrens. In Hazel’s warren which is run mainly by Hazel who is a male rabbit and Bigwig who is…