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This review is from: Watership Down (SparkNotes Reader's Companion) (Hardcover)
How do you summarize a book like Watership Down without diminishing its power? It's about rabbits who are basically real rabbits; they eat grass and live in burrows and hold very simple views about the ways of life and society. But then again, these rabbits can talk to each other, and they have legends and poets and seers. And they have a deep-rooted understanding of their own place in the vast scheme of things. As their creator told their first ancestor, El-ahrairah, in one of their legends, "all the world will be you enemy, Prince of a Thousand Enemies, and where they catch you, they will kill you. But first they will have to catch you. . . Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed." Death, in a myriad of forms, is always just around the corner for these rabbits, and it is no joking matter for them, or for the reader who is drawn into their world. But Richard Adams' rich characters journey on and fight their way through all perils, their eyes firmly fixed on their dream--a warren in "high, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn." NOTE: throughout the book, the author occasionally drops a word or two of his rabbit language with a translation in a footnote. I advise any new readers to try to remember these tidbits. There comes a climactic moment towards the end of the book when a whole (rather satisfying) sentence in lapine goes entirely untranslated.
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