Watership Down Summary

Neighborhood News Roundup: Watership Down Edition

Or the 'tribbles' in one of those Star Trek episodes. The manicured lawns of Chevy Chase are covered with rabbit families munching away on annuals and woody plants in the early morning. Cute at first and then creepy when you see so many in one yard after the other. Although I have had fewer sightings in Shepherd Park, they are residing here as well....My trips to the park (Montgomery County) also indicate that those bunnies are everywhere. Cottontail's lifespan—15 to 18 months. They can have up to four litters starting in the spring. They stay in the same general area. They love new tender plants. They build nice little ground condos and consider your garden Applebee's and Morton's Steak House on a Friday night." But another member says it's not just bunnies wreaking havoc on Shepherd Park lawns: "I see evidence of deer in my yard as well.  My daylilies are almost all done, neatly cut off at the top flower.  I sprayed my yard this morning with "Liquid Fence" that I hear is pretty effective.  If you plan to use it, get ready, it has the worse smell and please don't get any on your hands or clothing."

Cleveland Park Problems: The severe storms over the weekend did more than just bring down branches. A member of the Cleveland Park email list writes of Sunday morning's storm, "The storm that passed over Cleveland Park this morning at about 5:30am produced a bolt of lightning that zapped our phone system. It also caused some damage to some external hard drives, making them unreadable. It appears that the surge of electricity went through the internal phone wiring in our house, destroying several phones and our VOIP phone adapter. I can't tell if the bolt actually hit our house (we're near the Uptown movie theater) or if it just landed nearby, and the electricity traveled through the ground to us. But it was bright and potent. And, sigh, there's a chance of more storms tonight."

Just Don't Replant It in a Toilet: Available, according to the New Hill East email list, is the following: "Tree in good shape, fruit bearing. We're moving and can't take it with us. The catch is, it is REALLY heavy and out of its pot. Probably needs to be planted in the ground. Pick up this week." The title of the posting specifies that the tree in question is a "5 foot Turkish fig tree.

Book Report On Watership Down | Ashlyn's Portfolio

Ashlyn Newcomb

 

Introductory Paragraph

I read this book for Mr. Greens English class. My book was Watership Down by Richard Adams. Watership Down is 496 pages and is published by Simon & Schuster. Watership Down was published in 2005. I read this book because I like this kind of book and someone recommended it to me.  This book was a world wide bestseller for over thirty years.

 

Main character(s) paragraph

The main characters in Watership Down were named Hazel and Fiver. Fiver is important because he had the vision that something bad would happen in the warren, and because he was a main focus in the book. Hazel is important because he is Fiver’s brother and he led the expedition out of the old warren. He was also a main focus in this book.

 

Other characters paragraph

Big Wig is another important character in the book, he is captain of the new Watership Down warren, and is the strongest rabbit. Blackberry is also an important character, he is very smart and often understands concepts the other rabbits don’t get. Dandelion is very good at telling story’s and can always entertain or make the other rabbits feel better. Pipkin is a small and timid rabbit who looks to Hazel for protection and is also friends with Fiver. Silver is a large rabbit with grey fur who is friends with Hazel. Buckthorn is a tough and reliable rabbit. Hawkbit, Speedwell, and acorn are other rabbits on their journey. Kehaar was a bird the rabbits saved and became friends with, Kehaar is probably my favorite character.  My book has a lot of important characters and this is not even close to all of them.

Plot summary paragraph

Watership Down is a Greek tragedy. Watership Down takes place in the English country side where the author grew up. It is possible that my book was supposed to take place near the time of WWII but it was never talked about in the book. Watership down was a little bit violent and I didn’t think it was scary but it is classified as a scary book. The rabbits in this book were trying to get away from there warren, because one of the rabbits sensed danger, and that something terrible was going to happen. In the end of the book it was very happy, and everything was good. 

Personal impressions and conclusion paragraph

My final thoughts on ‘Watership Down’ are that I thought it was a great book. It was very interesting, and hard to put down. I like the book because it was written well, and had a lot of great characters. One thing I didn’t like about the book was that there were so many characters that I often got confused because I had forgotten about a character. Some good points in the book was when they were at Efrafa and different times when they where on adventures. Some weak points in the book was the beginning, I thought it was boring but then after getting further into the book it got better and better. I would definitely recommend this book to others.

Classical and modern literature

A brief summary of the work will facilitate its discussion. Watership Down was published in 1972 and was Adams's first work. It was conceived as a tale to ...

Watership Down by Richard Adams, teacher guide

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Chronicle of the horse

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ThirdWay

Cinema/Mary Endersbee Patchwork rabbits WATERSHIP DOWN Cinema International Corporation/ West End Certificate U With its U certificate, ...

The horn book magazine

Comradeship is obviously a central theme of Watership Down, ... Although book reviewers are obliged to provide a balanced summary of a whole work, ...