In Watership Down, a novel by Richard Adams, there is always one constant among the rabbits on their journey. The feelings of Hope and Desire. However, there is only one way that the rabbits will ever reach their goals, and that is by working together and using their strengths collectively. As Andrew Carnegie said, "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." The ability of the rabbits to come together as a group at times of dire need, and combine both their brain power and muscle power is what allows the rabbits to keep moving and succeeding on their journey. This is evident when the “not-hawk” is attacking Fiver, when the …show more content…
In order to protect both Fiver and Pipkin the other rabbits put themselves in danger of the crow. Hazel was already far up the hill, but once she saw Fiver and Pipkin in danger he was back to them in seconds. He distracted the crow, and Bigwig came charging after it. After the Crow attempted to hit Bigwig and missed, it was Silver’s turn to take one for the team. Silver came from behind Bigwig and stopped, facing directly at the crow. The crow stayed in place, and gazed down at Silver. Just as the crow was about to strike, Bigwig came storming from behind and rammed into the crow. The crow became flustered and flew away. Just yet another example of teamwork saving the day, and also prevailing over individual action. It is apparent Bigwig realizes in this scenario that teamwork is the best option, as before the crow flies off he cried, “Keep at it! Come in behind it! They’re cowards! They only attack helpless rabbits” (Adams 42). Without the fearlessness and quick thinking of Bigwig, Silver, and also Hazel, the situation could have ended much
Unable to escape, Louie became increasingly angry… When the bird lunged for Louis, Louis imagines strangling him, and
(173). This shows his nihilistic behaviour which he likely did just for an excuse to beat him. The Bird has been known to “eavesdrop on men, and beat those who mentioned him” (177). This action shows the Bird’s inhumanity brought out on him in the war. He degraded people until they wished they were dead.
Time after time, he was given deadly tasks, and beaten. The book says; “Any resistance from Louie, even shielding his face, would inspire the Bird to more violence. Louie could do nothing but stand there, staggering, as the Bird
He has aspirations to own his own blues bar. He claims he only joined the army so he can have a muse for his blues song. Birdy continues his rivalry with Marla. They argue about guns and other petty things that she would pick at him for.
In this book the author shows perseverance through teamwork to survive and get through the hard times. One piece of evidence is the author shows this on page 138 when Minho and Thomas use teamwork to save each other and Alby from a griever. The author states “Both boys ran at the griever and jumped and kicked the griever into the valley”. The author proves this by saying how they persevered through almost getting killed by a river and the ended up using teamwork to kill the griever and survive it. Another piece of evidence is on page 280 when Thomas and his friends use teamwork to find out pieces to the maze to help escape in the future.
All of the creatures asked for help but since they didn’t fit the description they just kept to themselves. While all this is going on Little rabbit is asking her mother why the terrible things are taking the creatures, but her mom just responds don’t worry about it and don’t question it so she doesn’t get in trouble. It went on like that until the bad things came for Little rabbit and her mother Little rabbits decide to hide and watch all the rabbits ask for help only to see there is no one else left to help. When everyone is gone Little rabbit realizes the theme when she states, “I should have tried to help the other rabbits," he thought. "If only we creatures had stuck together, it could have been different” (Bunting, 3).
The birds had been more restless than ever this fall of the year, the agitation more marked because the days were still. (52) This quote shows that there is something strange happening with the birds and hints towards something more later in the story. In one scene, Nat askes Mr. Trigg if he has boarded up his windows yet. He replied, saying that the birds were a bunch of nonsense and that he had nothing to worry about.
In society, there are many standards that people must uphold to. In western society, it is uncommon for men to have long hair or for women to have short hair. Naturally, people will be conscientious of their differences between other people and try to change them or cover them up, and often times people who do not follow the standard are looked down upon. This leads to people trying to fit into the groups around them almost thoughtlessly. However, when people conform without thinking, it can lead to dangerous consequences.
The boys now know the only way to properly kill things is to kill their prey at its weakest moment. The boys had only known that their food had come from a grocery store. Thanks to Jack, the boys will forever be reminded of the time they killed a sow while she was nursing her children. People do not know how to survive without proper guidance but, the worst guidance is from those who do not know what is right from wrong. The boys do not know how to fend for themselves on their own.
Jack makes the boys believe that the beast will not hurt them as long as they do what he says, this gives Jack more control over the boys. When Jack and his hunters go hunting, they find a sow and kill it. When they
Hale can be described as a leader which is a quality that Mrs. Peters does not possess. After discovering the dead bird, the women both decide to not inform the men of their discovery. When the men come back downstairs, the discover the empty birdcage. The county attorney asks the women if “ the bird has flown” (1119). Mrs. Hale quickly replies with “we think the—cat got it” (1119).
Teamwork is a good characteristic that each person needs in their lives, and Dashner does a great job in explaining it throughout the
In the novel of Watership Down, Richard Adams tells a story of a peculiar band of rabbits and writes about an epic journey filled with danger, trials, and hope. One quote Adams says is, “Animals don't behave like men, he said. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
After several laps, rabbits with pieces torn from their bodies twitch and writhe in agony. Their spine-chilling screams ring out across the training track. Piglets are one of the most intelligent and sensitive of all species. Their futile squeals could be heard as their bodies were torn apart. Native possums are a protected species and are tied to lures and
Jack uses the boy’s animalistic need to kill, and shapes it into a fear driven mob. Eventually Jack’s leadership eventually achieves what Ralph and Piggy had attempted to do since the start of the book. Get Rescued. “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing?