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>be 12 years old me
>pick up book because rabbits
>Expect cute forest adventures
>Within 5 pages they are having apocalyptic visions and fleeing like refugees
>Main rabbit literally named Fiver starts seeing the end of the world
>”Guys, the meadow is cursed”
>Rest of the rabbits: “Cope.”
>Two chapters later: entire warren wiped out
>The ‘adventure’ is actually just constant rabbit PTSD
>Predators everywhere
>Cows stepping on them
>Traps, snares, floods
>Every day is The Revenant but with bunnies
>They finally find a hill to settle on
>Called Watership Down
>Just when things start to chill
>Meet the Efrafa rabbits
>Literal totalitarian warren
>General Woundwort, rabbit warlord, runs it like North Korea
>Plan a full-on rabbit heist to rescue the oppressed does
>Turns into Mission Impossible: Fluffy Edition
>Dig tunnels, trick guards, start a rabbit civil war
>Half the book is straight-up guerrilla warfare
>All narrated like it’s normal rabbit behavior
>Rabbits have folklore, religion, heroes, and prophecies
>somehow deeper than half the fantasy novels I’ve read
>Book ends
>Not with a happy ending
>But with melancholy acceptance that life is short, dangerous, and sometimes all you can do is survive
>proceed to ponder on the fragility of life with dad's bitter water from his special silver flask

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Is it really "just a story about rabbits" as Adams claims and not an exploration of different systems of government?