Watership Down
Richard Adams
First Read: 3rd/4th grade
| Hazel and Fiver from the movie |
I first read Watership Down after seeing the
cartoon. I was dusting my parents’
bookcase, and boom there the book was. So,
I read it and loved it. Except for that
one chapter.
| El-ahrairah (movie) |
The
basic plot of Watership is a quest by a group of rabbits as they try to find,
first, a home and then female rabbits.
The rabbits have a trickster god called El-ahrairah. The chapter that freaked me out when I first
read it was a story about El-ahrairah going to the Black Rabbit (death). El-ahrairah wanted to save his people so he
gambled with the Black Rabbit. Each time
he lost, he lost body parts. His ears
were replaced with cabbage leaves and so on.
It freaked me out. Really freaked
me out. It was the only time I ever
needed a night light.
It was
the cabbage leaves.
| The Black Rabbit |
Yet,
even this chapter couldn’t kill my love for the book. I re-read pretty much every year though
college. Until high school, I skipped
that scary chapter. But then I read it
again and loved it.
The
great thing about Watership Down is the whole language. The whole world building. The characters – Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig,
Dandelion, Blackberry, Pippin, and Keehar (who is not a rabbit).
I love
those characters. I love this book.
Rabbits
taught me much.
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