Outside Reading #1

"With Fiver beside him, he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope. In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim, moonlit night." (Adams 36). This quote leads off on the journey of the rabbits as they leave their home for a long and enduring journey. The rabbits in this novel do a lot of adjusting. A rabbit in its lifetime usually never leaves the warren. And neither did its grandparents or great-grandparents. These rabbits have the courage to follow an instinct, and leave. They discover that home isn't a place, its a feeling, and its just being with your family. "The Threarah waited politely for a few moments and then he said 'Well, now, and what ought we to do about it, I wonder?' 'Go away. All of us. Now. Threarah,sir, we must all go away.'" (Adams 26). Here is an example of someone who knows something bad is coming and tries to warn everyone. They try to evacuate the whole warren but that could never work. I think Adams is using rabbits as the characters to show that even creatures have instincts like us. What happens in our world are affected by our human instincts. And this book would be a lot less interesting if it was about humans.