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In the book Watership Down by Richard Adams, the predominant themes of home, leadership and nature appear throughout the novel. Although there are many more themes, home, leadership and nature reflect today’s society and current issues that parallel the novel’s. In Richard Adams’ novel Watership Down, the themes of nature, leadership, and home reappear through the selection of characters as well as setting to express the importance of these qualities in everyday life. To begin, the reader is immediately introduced to the importance of nature. The book begins with the quote “The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches
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In line 26, Adams describes that “Nature has not been deficient” to stress that nature does have enough of the needed resources he needs, in order to survive. And in a further line, she explains “form the character of the hero and the statesman” to illustrate that being a bigger person will help shape who will be throughout time. Throughout life, he will have to use that a lot which will benefit him who he will be. This was most evident, she asserts, on his voyage, he will see how the world really is through his own eyes and he will not only have to stand up for his beliefs but “do honor to your country” for others as well to represent where he is from. The use of explanation in this section that she knows that the voyage will have many advantages for him although at that moment he doesn’t understand but he will us what he learns throughout

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