Frisby+Questions



The message in the novel Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMF is that she has to face many conflicts, and have to work hard, and man-up in a way so that she can survive using skills such as stealing and knowledge. Mrs. Frisby is a hard worker to save hers and her children’s lives. She has traveled many places for shelter and found out the way that her husband dies. In the book, Mrs. Frisby and the rats on NIMF, Mrs. Frisby is faced with many conflicts that involve her life in great danger, like when she had to put the sleeping powder in Dragon’s bowl. Another conflict in the beginning of the story when timothy gets phenomena, she has to travel where the lonely owl tells her to go to find a cure in time. Mrs. Frisby has used major willpower to pull through all the causalities of her life. She has to relocate somewhere else, while Timothy is sick with phenomena. She goes to NIMF and gets injected with medicines and some sorts of steroids that make them bigger and stronger in the eyes of the other rats, who don’t take kindly to it. Another adventure (or death trap) was the toymakers house, where they stole electronics and batteries, which the toymaker noticed. In the Novel Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMF, the rats are using the skills they use best skill they know, stealing. In the Boniface Estate, while the 2 honeymooners were on vacation around the world, the rats took advantage of the scenario (because they wouldn’t be there till May) ,taking food, basically living there for 8 months. In the very beginning of the book, Mrs. Frisby was dependent on stealing the Fitzgibbon’s crop. In The Toymakers tinker, the rats have become addicted to electricity, using vents, and lights and other energy wise items, They stole from the store and truck for scrap electronics. They made a den, full of stolen goods, food, running water, electricity. Finally Nicodemus makes up his mind and leaves this plush kingdom, of a den and the rats and him escape to the Thorn Valley, but Jenner disagrees and leaves forever with his followers.

In the Novel Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMF, The rats are known to have a very unlimited knoledge. Apon Justin bringing mrs. Frisby to their lair, she remembers how johnothan showed her to read, when she sees the library with many books. Obiously the rats with all the books must have known how to read and are vey well educated. The rats are well equiped, such as they use eletricity from cords to light their homes and They use water pipes for drinking, which takes priror knowledge of plumbing, and electrician's knowledge. Some of the rats became addicted to this, thus went to stealing.

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 * 1) The real fact is, all these traits have become a factor in the rats life, are the key elements for the rats survival. The rats are in their own “world” using these skills to aid themselves in the horribly hard life.