Watership Down, written by Richard Adams in 1970, is a story centered around rabbits. The two main characters are Hazel and Fiver. When Fiver senses that there is danger in the warren, Hazel and Fiver go to the leader of the warren, Threarah and tell him that all of the rabbits must leave the warren because of danger. Threarah says it is too risky to move all over the rabbits and insist that there is no danger. Regardless, Hazel and Fiver decide to leave the warren and look for a new home. Along the way they come across many obstacles, but in the end, they are able to create a safe new warren. Richard Adams uses a tremendous amount of personification, foreshadowing and similes in the book to help it come alive. There are also many different …show more content…
All of the animals are personified because rabbits don’t actually talk, but the writer Richard Adams made them seem almost human. Without personification the story would simple be about rabbits hoping around. Adams also uses foreshadowing in the book. One example of this is when Fiver says, “Oh, Hazel! This is where it comes from! I know now- something very bad! Some terrible thing-coming closer and closer” (Adams 7). This is foreshadowing because it gives an idea of what is going to happen in the future of the story and later in the book something terrible did happen. Foreshadowing makes the story interesting and can keep the reader interested. There are also many different similes used throughout the story. “The light, full and smooth, lay like a gold rind over the turf” (Adams 123) “I can feel the danger like a wire round my neck-like a wire-Hazel, help?” (Adams 13). These are examples of similes because they use the words like or as to compare two different things. Simile help the reader to be able to see what is happening in the story in their mind and to be able to imagine it. For example, “Her hair was red” is dull and is not very descriptive, but “Her hair was as red as fire” gives the reader an idea of how red it the hair was and allows the reader to imagine it. Without similes Watership Down would be dull and
During the story the author often uses foreshadowing to give hints to the reader of things that will happen in the future. When the story starts, a storm is coming on a late October night. The storm symbolizes the evil approaching the town. Usually it seems a storm would resemble something dark and evil, because a stormy night is always a classic setting for something evil. At the
For example, Bradbury writes “He would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” The simile used does a great job showing the reader the setting of this scene in the “The Pedestrian”. In this scene a man is walking down the sidewalk kicking up ash-like dust. When the reader sees the image of that man, the reader gets the sense of a content and tranquil situation.
In the story “The Hitchhiker,” Lucille Fletcher uses foreshadowing to build a mood. The mood of it would be discovering. In the story the Hitchhiker Fletcher used foreshadowing to show how Adams felt about the hitchhiker here are some examples. In the story it said “Personally, I’ve never met anybody who didn’t like a good ghost story.”( Fletcher 1) This shows that she is foreshadowing that the story is going to be about a ghost. For another example from the story “ Oh, it isn't that. It’s-it’s just the trip. Ronald, I wish you weren’t driving.”( Fletcher 2) This shows that something bad is going to happen because his mom does not want him to
A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. In the novel Kidd used a simile to compare and make readers understand more. “ I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason”.(11) Kidd compared Rosaleen to a flower to express that at times
Foreshadowing is when the author gives the reader a hint to what is going to happen later on in the story .
The book Watership Down by Richard Adams, is a story that was once told to his children and has been put into a novel. The book shows us the ups and downs during a journey of many rabbits. These rabbits talk in their own language and embark on a crazy journey to a new land. Sandleford is the current home of the rabbits and their journey will take them to Cowslips Warren, there part time home. We will focus on life in Sandleford, the life in Cowslips Warren and the individual rabbits who chose to go on this journey together.
Quitters Inc by Stephen King is about Mr. Morrison, an addicted smoker who's friend gives him a business card and tells him to go to the place, he is told that if he goes there they will help him with his problems. He has an unpleasant experience with them but soon his life changes in a good way. in the end he meets with his friend just to find out that they had it worse. There are many uses of foreshadowing in the story but the most powerful one is when he meets Donatti, one of his statements lingers throughout the story. Cigarettes and smoking were not always viewed as something detrimental, in our era we now know that they can harm you.
The author uses Foreshadowing for a number of different reasons including giving background information, to show the character’s motivation, to build a mood and to get the reader’s predicting. One of the most important craft moves that the author uses throughout the book is foreshadowing. “The temporary rose tattoo on his left biceps showed below his sleeve, but the slight bulge of the handgun in his shoulder holster was barely noticeable under his shirt.”(page 3) In the beginning of the book, by using foreshadowing the author achieves the goal of building a mood. When she does this, she makes it seem as if something bad is about to happen. It creates a very suspenseful and eerie mood. Another goal the author achieves by using foreshadowing in the beginning of the book is to provide the reader’s with background information. When the author talks about
A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another using the words like or as. The machines cut the trees in one big swipe like a shearer quickly cutting the fleece off a
Foreshadowing, in literature, is used to indicate a significant event or a series of significant events that occur later on in the piece of writing. Often, the reader does not fully comprehend the importance of indicative words and/or phrases until being made aware of them later. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald foreshadows the inevitable outcome for his main star, Jay Gatsby. The events prior to Gatsby’s death all foreshadow the final outcome. Almost every characters are foreshadowed with how they end up. Fitzgerald uses imagery to convey hints and clues to Gatsby and everyone surrounding him and all of their eventual destination.
Based on Richard Adam’s novel, Watership Down is an epic, beautiful picture about leadership, humanity, transformation. The story follows a pack of rabbits as they adventure to find a new home after one of their own has a vision that they are all in terrible danger.
A simile is a form of figurative language that uses the word “like” or “as” to make a comparison. An effective simile can tell a lot about a character or scenario. Early on in Wiesel’s book he describes Moishe as “Physically, he was awkward as a clown. His waiflike shyness made people smile” (3).
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there” (Anton Chekhov).In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author uses foreshadowing to hint at events that will happen in the future. One example is on page 15 :”Well, look. Lennie-if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.” “Hide in the brush,” said Lennie slowly.
Walker used many literary devices to strengthen her story, so that it would come to life for all her readers. Three (3) of those literary devices are simile, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole. A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another using like or as. In the colour purple, Alice Walker used simile on page fourteen (14) to describe Shug Avery’s hair “Her hair like somethin tail.” She also used it to describe Shug Avery’s complexion, “Shug Avery black as my shoe.” Simile was also used to paint a picture of the condition that Shug Avery was in during her sickness. She stated, “She weak as a kitten” and “skinny as a bean.” The simile provided vivid descriptions of Shug Avery. Anyone reading Walker’s book would not find it hard to create an image of Shug Avery.
In A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens uses foreshadowing to keep the reader hooked on the story. Dickens uses foreshadowing multiple times throughout the book and if the reader pays close attention they may be able to predict main plot points in the book. Dickens uses foreshadowing to give hints about important plot points that are to come in the novel and keep the reader in suspense.