When they were in cowslips warren
When they left Sadleford
When holly told them that bigwig was right
When they were escaping efrafa
When they went to nuthanger farm
When they found Kahaar
When they were escaping with the does from Efrafa
When the rabbits from Efrafa attacked the honeycomb
When they found Watership down
When Fiver had his Vision that they were going to die
When they rescue Clover from nuthanger farm
When they freed the dog
When the dog attacked Efrafen rabbits
When hazel dies at the end
Bunny rabbits.
because the author wanted to call it that The name is taken from the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in north Hampshire, England, near where Author, Richard Adams, grew up.
His daughters, who he told the story to on the way to Stradford-On-Avon, encouraged him to write the story down. He was finally convinced to when he was reading a story to his daughters (the story wasn't very good) until he finally got so frustrated that he threw the book across the room and said, "Good G-d, I could write better myself." One of his daughters said, "Well why don't you, if you keep saying you did so." So he did, and so we have the book Watership Down by Richard Adams.Source: The new introduction by Richard Adams to the book.
To make us worried and scared about the rabbits on their journey.
Though a bit confusing Bigwig's mate is Thethuthinnang. I only became aware of this in the sequel, "Tales from Watership Down" and was wandering if it really could be her but Wikipedia gave me the confirmation, you can check it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Watership_DownHyzenthlay is Hazel's mate, and Vilthuril is Fiver's. Also Captain Holly mated with Clover.
i LOVED Watership Down! the characters were rabbits.
Watership Down was a big grassy area where the rabbits lived.
Not really, but there is another shortstory book called Tales From Watership Down also by the same author.
Bunny rabbits.
The book in question is Watership Down by Richard Adams.
the honeycomb.
Golden eagle
They are characters in the book Watership Down by Richard Adams.
The book does not actually come out and say "Fiver dies", it's inferred when Hazel-rah dies of old age (the book does say he lived longer than most rabbits) and joins El-ahrairah's owsla that Fiver is dead.
speed,hightened sense, and mad good digging skillz
because the author wanted to call it that The name is taken from the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in north Hampshire, England, near where Author, Richard Adams, grew up.
Richard Adams wrote Watership Down , Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book , Jonathan Swift authored Gulliver's Travels and Dodie Smith penned The Hundred and One Dalmatians .