The Wind in the WillowsAmanda Ivanoff
the rat
“The Rat was a self-sufficing sort of animal, rooted to the land, and whoever went,
he stayed; still, he could not help noticing what was in the air, and feeling
some of its influence in his bones.”
"Yes, it 's the life, the only life, to live," re-
sponded the Water Rat dreamily, and without
his usual whole-hearted conviction.
“Poor Ratty did his best, by degrees, to explain
things; but how could he put into cold words
what had mostly been suggestion? How recall,
for another's benefit, the haunting sea voices
that had sung to him, how reproduce at second-
hand the magic of the Seafarer's hundred rem-
iniscences? Even to himself, now the spell was
broken and the glamour gone, he found it diffi-
cult to account for what had seemed, some hours
ago, the inevitable and only thing.”
the swallows
“‘Why do you ever come back thenat all?’ he demanded of the swallowsjealously, “What do you find to attract you in this poor drab little country?’
“‘In due time...we shall be homesick once more for quiet water-lilies swaying on the surface of an English stream. But today that all seems pale and thin and very far away. Just now our blood dances to other music.’”
the dusty wayfarer
“It is a goodly life that you lead; friend...if only you are strong enough to live it.”
“‘You are not one of us’ said the Water Rat, ‘nor yet a farmer; nor even, I should judge, of this country.’ ‘Right’, replied the stranger. ‘I’m a seafaring rat, I am, and the port I originally hail from is Constantinople, though I’m a sort of foreigner there too, in a manner of speaking.’ ”
personification fitting the theme
Structure
12 chapter/ 12 books
Themes
family
coming home
adventure
Character archetypes
Ex) Toad and Odysseus
Direct reference
“on the chance”- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Comparing “The Wind in the Willows” to epic adventures
*Ulysses:Odyssey:: The Wind in the Willows: The
Aeneid
Significance of Water in other stories?
Citations
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