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Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

Book Report
by Stony Hakala
January 5, 2003
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C. S. Lewis (270 pages)

PERSONAL CONNECTIONS:

In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader there is a character named Reepicheep, the Mouse. Reepicheep's feelings about honor and adventure are similar and different when compared to mine.

Reepicheep feels very strongly about his honor. He will get very angry - often violent - when he is insulted, sees wrong being done to others, or when he catches someone lying or stealing.

One example of a situation in which Reepicheep's honor was challenged was when "Reepicheep was sitting on the bulwarks far forward just beside the dragon's head, looking out at the eastern horizon and singing softly in his little chirpy voice the song the Dryad had made for him" with his tail hanging down to the deck. (pp. 33-34) Then Eustace came up to the deck and thought it would be funny to pull Reep's tail down and swing him around in circles a couple of times and drop the Mouse and run. Sooall of a sudden Eustace pulled the mouse down and started swinging him in circles. Reepicheep, still in the boy's clutches, drew his sword and stabbed Eustace in the hand twice, thus making Eustace let go of his tail. Reep wanted Eustace to draw his sword and fight. But Eustace hadn't one, so he ran down to the cabins with Reepicheep in hot pursuit. As you can plainly see, Reepicheep feels very strongly and seriously about his honor.

Reepicheep loves adventure that puts one's self at risk. He would jump at any chance he had to become involved in a life-threatening event. One of Reepicheep's most important adventures was that he desired to sail to the very east and find World's End. For there might the one and only thing that he could possibly want in the entire world, Aslan's Country. When he was still in his cradle, a Dryad spoke a verse over him, (p. 22) and ever since he had wanted to sail to the utter east in search of Aslan's Country. Then after almost 203...