Extended Reading
  • Carroll 2022-10-02 21:10:24

    The Promised Land of Vans

    Frith is an ancient English word that means peace, freedom from persecution, security, safety, and freedom from natural and man-made disasters. Down refers to open highlands, and Watership Down is a hill in Hampshire, England, where the author grew up. The story is based on a novel that a father...

  • Daphnee 2022-10-02 17:16:32

    Brain hole

    Let me write an ideological fable:

    The industrial revolution drove farmers out of the land;

Watership Down quotes

  • Bigwig: Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?

    Hazel: It is.

    Bigwig: What are you doing here?

    Hazel: [Motioning to Fiver] We want to see the chief rabbit, Bigwig.

    Bigwig: We? You mean he wants to see him too?

    Hazel: Yes.

    Fiver: I must.

    Bigwig: What on earth for?

    Fiver: Well, I...

    Holly: Bigwig? What do they want?

    Bigwig: They want to see the chief rabbit.

    Holly: What for?

    Fiver: Well, I...

    Holly: Send them away.

    Bigwig: I'll take care of it, Holly.

    [Turns back to Hazel]

    Hazel: Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit?

    Bigwig: [Thinks over, hesitating] All right, all right. Wait here.

    [Goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up]

    Bigwig: Come along then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...

  • Hazel: [to the cat] You look hungry! Rats getting too clever, I suppose?