Hazel became the leader of the rabbits once they left their
original warren. He was a very smart and tricky rabbit who won the
respect and trust of the other rabbits by his courage and many great
deeds. He always handled problems calmly so others would also
remained calm. Whenever a plan was needed, Hazel would always
come up with one.
Fiver, the younger brother of Hazel, was unique because of his
small size and ability to foresee danger. He saved the rabbits from
death by warning some rabbits of the danger.
Bigwig, a great fighting and courageous rabbit, was essential for
the success of the traveling rabbits. He loved to fight and always did
his best to protect the others. He was also the bird Kehaar’s best friend
and enjoyed spending time with him. Blackberry was the most
intelligent rabbit in the group. For example, he made a boat to cross a
river although the others had never even seen or understood the
floating concept. Blackberry always helped Hazel to think of ideas
when problems arose. Dandelion, another smart rabbit, was known for
his speed and for his great story telling of El-ahrairah, the rabbit folk
hero. He could always tell stories which distracted and eased the
rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like
Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he
was told and never complained. PLOT One day Fiver, sensing danger,
convinced his brother Hazel that they must leave their warren. Hazel
tried to warn the Chief Rabbit of the danger, but he did not listen.
Hazel gathered a group and went along the brook until they reached
another warren of rabbits. These rabbits were very strange and acted
differently from other rabbits. Hazel and his group decided to leave
after Bigwig got caught in a wire. The man would feed the rabbits so
they would become big and healthy; then the man would kill them.
After many days of travel, Hazel and the others came to Watership
Down, which was an excellent place for a warren. The soil was perfect,
and enemies could be spotted from many miles away. Here they dug a
burrows where the rabbits were happy. Hazel made friends with
animals such as mice and even a bird named Kehaar. Hazel then
realized that the warren needed does to survive. He used Kehaar to
find some does. They made a raid on a farm and brought back two
does. Then three of four rabbits left to visit a big warren to ask for
This passage defines the character of the narrators’ father as an intelligent man who wants a better life for his children, as well as establishes the narrators’ mothers’ stubbornness and strong opposition to change as key elements of the plot.
"Oh Hazel! This is where it comes from! I know now—something very bad! Some terrible thing—coming closer and closer" (Adams, 1975, p. 21). This quote at the beginning of Watership Down is the first of Fiver's amazing forewarnings, that helps him to demonstrate both of the themes of "trust" and "survival" in the rabbit world. Trust and survival are two key components to the rabbits lives, and they cannot live without either. Because of his ability to sense danger around him, Fiver exemplifies the related themes of trust and survival in Watership Down.
The Pirates of Penzance was an opera performed by the Southwest Texas Opera Workshop. The Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert & Sullivan, is a light-hearted parody of the traditional opera. This opera takes place somewhere in the British Virgin Islands. It is about a boy, Federic, who is to be apprenticed by his nurse, Ruth, to become a pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of pirates. She, too, remains with them as a maid-of-all-work.
The newfound friends are led by a young headstrong rabbit named Hazel who tries to lead with courage and wisdom. While the group travels to their unknown destination they encounter problems like wild animals, but with cooperation they get through their problems. An interesting part is how they figure out a way to transport their injured Fiver and Pipkin across the river to escape the dog. Using his brains, Hazels has the idea to ship the two injured rabbits across the river upon a flat piece of wood. When this act had been done, the other rabbits had a new admiration of Hazel. This new admiration was brought upon, when he had to choose to leave injured rabbits behind he refused and thought of idea to help them across, Hazel has shown himself as a competent, caring, and wise leader.
In the short story “ The Open Boat,” by Stephen Crane, Crane does an outstanding job creating descriptive images throughout the entire story. With saying this, Crane uses symbolism along with strong imagery to provide the reader with a fun and exciting story about four guys who 's fight was against nature and themselves. Starting early in the book, Crane creates a story line that has four men in a great amount of trouble in the open waters of the ocean. Going into great detail about natures fierce and powerful body of water, Crane makes it obvious that nature has no empathy for the human race. In this story, Crane shows the continuous fight that the four men have to endure in able to beat natures strongest body of water. It 's not just nature the men have to worry about though, its the ability to work together in order to win this fight against nature. Ultimately, Crane is able to use this story, along with its vast imagery and symbolism to compare the struggle between the human race and all of natures uncertainties.
As highlighted by the author, Mary Louise Adams in her article, “Excerpts from The Trouble with Normal”, ‘a norm’ “can be defined as something that is usual, typical or standardized” (Hacking, Adams, 2003). Norms are often already so established that most individuals do not realize how much they have shaped society and the people who live in it. Audrey Lord tells us that being a “White, thin, young, heterosexual, Christian, male” defines the characteristics of being “normal” and “privileged,” in which she calls “the mythical norm” (Perry, 2011). We use our sexuality, race and class as a way of giving ourselves an identity for the world to see. This identity will ultimately allow us to understand our place in the world and give
Americans were incarcerated during this time for acts of violence. Police officers would brutally beat those in involvement with the movement if they refused to go along with the social norm of the society and so on. Others were perhaps jumped by white men when the blacks came off as being ‘disrespectful” to their way of living. The acts of Civil Rights continued until Jim Crow laws were uplifted.
"The Great Gatsby" and "The Kite Runner" are two stories from different periods of time, parts of the world , and social situations . At first glance , these two novels are completely different but with a closer look, one would find more similarities then what holds the eye. Both "The Kite Runner" and "The Great Gatsby" depicts bias and unfaithful behaviours such as racism, adultery and the idea of social class superiority which is still in our current society. Tom Bunchan from "The Great Gatsby", Baba and Assef from "The Kite Runner" are examples of how bias and unfaithful behaviors are still socially accepted.
Richard Wright was a novelist who wrote about being black in American. He used his writings as a form of advertisement to civilize communism. Being that he was born into slavery he experienced oppression since birth. His first published novel was Uncle Tom’s Children and the book consisted of different short stories of racial oppression in the South such as lynching and the KKK. One of his most defining novels is Black Boy as he wrote about the cultural, political, racial, religion, and social issues of the late 19th century.
When The records of the Atlantic slave Trade is reflected upon ,the impacts of shipboard revolts is often times overseen .Although these revolts did in fact have an immense effect on the economic political and social & economic views of the Slave trade and history in the world. In David Richardson’s “shipboard revolts,African Authority,and the Atlantic slave trade”.He brings into view the fluctuating causes and effects of shore based, and shipboard insurrection on the slave trade, along with the importance that the African Authority was to those revolts. Richardson serves as a professor of economics and international course ,which grants him reliability to all of his claims and supports his opinions.Because of this his occupation it offers
The characters in Richard Adams’ “Watership Down” act as literary devices used to further deepen the plot of the novel. Adams introduces a multitude of personalities to envelope the reader into the rabbit society he has created. Of the characters Adams introduces throughout the story, the rabbit called Bigwig is given the most domineering personality traits. Although Bigwig’s arrogant nature is perceived as distasteful by the reader, he actually helps to advance the novel to further progression. Adams also used strong character development on many of the rabbits in the novel, including Bigwig; which in return advanced the story as a whole. It is evident that Bigwig is matured by Adams throughout the story due to the fact that he eventually
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was a fictional story for children written by Beatrix Potter. The main character of the story was Peter Rabbit, who had three sisters by the names of Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail. The four bunnies lived with their mother, Mrs. Rabbit, underneath a huge tree in the woods. All the characters displayed the element of anthropomorphic because they are dressed in human clothing and display human characteristics such as walking straight up on their hind legs. The three sisters were wearing a pink to reddish cloak, Peter Rabbit a blue jacket with brown shoes, and the mother a blue chambermaid dress. While Peter Rabbit’s sisters were obedient little bunnies who gathered blackberries, Peter Rabbit was a naughty, disobedient and mischievous young rabbit who gave into temptation rather than to listen to direction.
“The Open Boat” fixates on the idea that Nature doesn’t care about man, and gives a glimpse of how men form a bond of brotherhood to overcome it. Stephen Crane’s poem War Is Kind exemplifies the disdain ways of nature and how it engenders it to be dispassionate towards men. Crane exemplifies that Nature finds man unworthy of its consideration by the way he writes about death. In the beginning of the poem Crane writes “Because your lover threw wild hands towards the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind.” The death of a soldier is briefly explained in this excerpt of the poem. The way Crane writes this part makes it seem like the maiden is being mocked by nature because her lover’s death
Gulliver's Travels reflects characters to the reader in numerous inventively nauseating ways. Quick uses his imaginative revamping of every day life to make the meanest, most clever, dirtiest tirade of the whole eighteenth century. Throughout this novel, Swift utilizes amazing misrepresentation and parody to make a figurative association between the distinctive societies experienced on Lemuel Gulliver's excursions and about his own particular society, reprimanding his general public's traditions.
On the 14th of September in the year 1607 the Earl of Tyrone Hugh O’Neill and the Earl of Tyrconnel Rory O’Donnell fled Ireland alongside officials, their families and numerous Gaelic chieftains. They left Ireland from Rathmullen in County Donegal. This flee was to become known as the flight of the Earls. They arrived in the Spanish Netherlands and then eventually made their way to Rome. The Flight of the Earls led to the most drastic form of the British government’s policy of plantation in Ireland. The Flight of the Earls has remained as one of the most memorable events in the history of Ireland. But what exactly were the reasons for the Flight of the Earls? The causes have been debated by historians with different interpretations as to why they fled but it is clear that the influence of the Earls in Ireland have been diminished greatly in the years prior to the Flight of the Earls. This essay seeks to clarify the reasons for the decline in power of the Earls in Ireland through exploration of the solidification of British rule in Ireland, along with key events in the years prior to the Flight of the Earls such as Hugh O’Neill’s campaign and onto the nine years war and the Battle of Kinsale and the Treaty of Mellifont after the Battle of Kinsale.