Lit+essay+(draft)+3

By: Bailey
 * The Tale of Despereaux**


 * In the tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo a mouse has to find courage in his heart to prove that he is brave.** It only takes one child many mess ups and a lot of adventure to make this mouse so special. This mouse's name is Despereaux and there are only two words to describe our young mouse: Brave and different. He is brave because he went to the dungeon a second time to rescue a princess from the rats of the kingdom.


 * Bravery takes courage.** Despereaux listened to his own father a member of the mouse council sentence him to death because his family was aware that he was doing things wrong so Despereaux's father called up the mouse council to decide his fate. And once they got there they all voted that he should be sent to the dungeon to be eaten by the rats. He stood in a wall in a castle and listened without a word what was about to happen to him and it was decided. The threadmaster came and tied a small piece of red string around his neck, this was a signal to the rats that he was to be eaten.

Once he has been escorted to the dungeon and by his own brother and another mouse from the colony, he was almost thrown down the steps and he was alone he was scared and once he has discovered that the princess is missing he knows that the rats are behind it. He felt sad, sad that his true love had been captured and that was enough for our little mouse to decide to go back to the dungeon.
 * Bravery takes heart.**


 * You have to know what you want.** All Despereaux wanted was to get out of the dungeon alive to see his family again even though they were the ones to send him to the dungeon. Once he got out he was very happy to see one thing in particular: the light. He really was happy and once he had discovered that the princess is missing (he heard people in the castle screaming it) it was like he never got out of the dungeon and sadness surrounded him. This led him to go back to the dungeon to search for his true love.

All in all our little mouse learned that adventure takes bravery and that you have to take risks to have something complex become possible for mouse. At first he was born with big ears and he opened his eyes too soon, then he was reading books in the castle library instead of eating them like every other mouse did and expected him to. His father then called a mouse council meeting and this was a very emotional moment because Despereaux was to be sent to the dungeon. He was not sure how long he was down there but he finally got out. Alive.