Readers Response: Watership Down

So far in this book, the story has been pretty slow. Its not fast paced or full of action, its mostly based on actual thought. Though the name might not state it, "Watership Down" is about a group of rabbits who leave their warren due to a warning from danger from a rabbit named Fiver. These groups of rabbits search for a new warren until an unknown rabbit welcomes them to his.

Throughout the book, I noticed how Fiver can be very skeptical, but sometimes he may be telling the truth. In the beginning of the book, Fiver and his older brother Hazel go to the chief rabbit to warn him about a "great danger coming to the warren". The chief rabbit takes this into consideration, but did not believe Fiver. Fiver became so skeptical, he gathered an entire group of rabbits and they all left the warren.

While this group of rabbits are traveling, some of the rabbits start to get tired and weary of traveling; they start to think that Fiver was wrong, and want to go back to the warren. But Fiver claims that there are a bunch of hills ahead and that there are a nice big plain for them to live. When they finally reach there, they realize that Fiver was right and they were wrong to doubt him.

When an unknown rabbit invited them to their warren, Fiver was suspicious of why they let them join their warren. He was also confused on why the warren was very large, yet there were not that many rabbits. He also noticed how the rabbits sort of acted like man. He thought there was evil somewhere around, and want to leave the warren as soon as possible.

Fiver shows how curiosity isn't an issue and it's better safe then sorry. Who knows what happened to their original warren; it could have flooded or cleared by man. I may have not gotten far in the book yet, but I can say Fiver is starting to persuade me too!

Animal Farm: Not What You Think It's About

I am reading the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. At first i was very suspicious about this book; I heard that it was about communism, which I knew very little about. I first thought I wasn't going to be able to read it due to my lack of knowledge. I was wrong. The book was a fairy tale about animals that were rebelling being in custody of humans and controlled by humans. When they finally achieved this and made their own "government" it soon started to go wrong. At first they made seven commandments that were supposed to be unchanged. Then the plot twist occurred. The leader, Snowball, was run out of Animal Farm by Napoleon, and Napoleon took charge of Animal Farm. Under Napoleon's command, the pigs and dogs were treated the best of all animals, when one of the commandments stated "all animals are equal". Some animals were treated different than other animals, and soon Animal Farm was the exact opposite of what they were originally aiming for.
At the end, the last sentence was about how the pigs and humans were arguing about something. the sentence said: "the other animals looked man to pig, pig to man, and man to pig again, but it was already impossible to tell which was which". This was saying that the pigs had actually became man, when the original goals of Animal Farm was to do anything but what man does so they would not become like man.
This relationship to communism was very interesting and amazing, and I was so perplexed when I figured it out.