Book Reviews

Watership Down

Nowinlove 2021. 4. 29. 19:30

 No literary work with animal characters can advocate peace better than Watership Down. The whole of it gives the feeling of peaceful release felt by several brave rabbits who are travelling distances that are far for rabbits, coming across two dysfunctional warrens onwards. Both times the gathered rabbits dodge those tyrannical kingdoms with wit, and establish their own atmosphere of "no violence within our new home, Watership Down". Told to the author's kids on car rides, this animal world is imagined in lovely rabbit language and speech. Privately I couldn't stop thinking how cute the rabbits are: I kept feeling and seeing the images of them.

 The rabbits' journey to the ideal future community Watership Down ends up imparting inner power for the rabbits and other animal friends, and tests their strength on the way. Their friends include the tall adorable bird Kehaar whom they accidentally meet, who helps them by speaking to them in broad animal language. I have a wild idea that the rabbits' supposed creator and dream-sent mentor, Frith, might be the angel for the animals.