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⌈ Secret Post #3616 ⌋

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Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, that's interesting! :) I found the rabbits extremely human-like, which is why the book as a whole didn't work for me.

Apart from Fiver, Bigwig and Kehaar were my favourites too. The moment at the beginning, when Bigwig almost died in the trap, was one of the very few times in the book, where I actually cared what happened. I don't think, I could have brought myself to continue reading without Bigwig around.

The treatment of the female rabbits by the author really confused and disappointed me too. Because they were (for me) so much like humans, and yet treating the does as anything but breeding stock would be stretching the imagination too far for those anthropomorphic rabbits, because real life rabbits wouldn't be like that?

That doesn't really change in Hazel's warren either. The interactions between Bigwig and the does go in a slightly different direction. But when they settle in their new warren, they are definitely better treated, but the status quo doesn't change. Also suddenly having been completely oppressed by an autocratic government and under constant threat as well as past experiences of sexual coercion etc. don't really matter anymore, because - according to what's her face - the Efrafran does were mostly miserable, because they weren't allowed to dig. Meaning returning to a 'natural' life works as an instant cure. Yet the bucks who came from or have been to Efrafra show clear signs of trauma from their experiences.

I would agree with the anon above. It's definitely a children's book in my eyes.