Watership Down is a novel about as big as a Twilight book (which gives you no reason not to read it). Written in the 1960’s, it takes place in the English Downs, namely Watership Down. It is about a warren of rabbits located in the Sandleford Warren. Hazel and is little brother Fiver (Fiver is what they called him because he was the fifth in the litter) are the main characters. Fiver is supposed to have supernatural powers and can sense when something isn’t right. Humans are planning to destroy the warren to make it into a construction site. Fiver has this vision and tries to tell the Threarah, the head rabbit, but no-one will listen.
Hazel tries to round up a group of rabbits to leave the warren. One is Bigwig, a member of the Sandleford Owsla. The Owsla is like a volunteer army corps for strong rabbits. Then Captain Holly, captain of the Sandleford Owsla, and two other members come to arrest this group of rabbits for desertion before they set off on their perilous journey. Of course Holly does not succeed or this wouldn’t be much of a novel, would it? On their journey they meet foxes, hawks, dangerous vagabond rabbits, psychotic rabbits, and predators of all kinds. To find out the rest you’ll have to read it yourself.
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