5/10/2023 0 Comments Watership down by richard adamsAs they travel, the rabbits comfort one another on their journey with tales of the rabbit trickster folk hero, El-ahrairah, and his triumphs against the enemies of rabbits throughout the ages. Hazel falls into the role of leader, and no one contests his natural ability to guide the rabbits to safety. The rabbits set out on their journey, frightened by every strange sight, smell, and sound. Bigwig fights Holly off, and Hazel offers the rabbit one last chance to come with them. That night, the rabbits set off along with some new additions- Buckthorn, Silver, Hawkbit, Speedwell, Pipkin, and Acorn-but the captain of the Owsla, Holly, attempts to arrest them. A fearsome member of the Owsla, a rabbit named Bigwig, approaches Hazel and Fiver at their evening meal and tells them he wants to go with them. That evening, Hazel and Fiver make a plan to leave the warren with couple of friends, including Blackberry and Dandelion. Fiver says that they need to evacuate, but the warren’s Chief Rabbit, the Thearah, dismisses the rabbits out of hand. When Fiver sees that a notice has been put up by humans at the edge of the field which houses their warren, he has a vision of the burrow’s destruction. Their warren is a generally happy place, though Hazel and Fiver, who often has strange visions of the future, occasionally have to contend with condescending treatment from their warren’s Owsla, or police-like protectorate. Hazel and Fiver are rabbits-and brothers-who live in a warren in Sandleford, in the English countryside.
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