Interpretation of The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble
The fable “The rabbits who caused all the trouble” written by James Thurber is about a pack of wolves who complain about the way rabbits are living near them. To be able to eat the rabbits without being threatened by the other animals living in the forest, they have a plan to ruin the rabbits’ way of living systematically. First they give absurd reasons to blame natural disasters like floods or earthquakes, in which some of the wolves were killed, on the rabbits. When for example some wolves are struck by lightning, the other wolves tell the animals in the forest it was the rabbits’ fault, “for it is well know that lettuce eaters cause lightning” (ll. 5-7). Not only this example shows that the wolves are dishonest, because they lie to the other animals to fool them. They pretend that the rabbits are imprisoned to protect them (cf. ll. 15). By the help of this clever strategy they make the other animals think that all
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Approximate Word count = 621
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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