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In The Tale Of Despeoux the little mouse learns that you should not let other people boss you and your personality around and that they should not try and shape you to be a person that you don't want to be. For example in the book when the mouse is born he has big ears and he has his eyes open to soon. His entire family thinks he is ugly and they all think that he is weird and they try to tell him how to do things and in other words they try to shape him and they teach him the ways of being a mouse and when they, meaning his family, try to teach him the ways of mouse (By the way he lives in a castle in a hole, with a bunch of other mice) he goes into the library with his brother to learn to eat paper he encounters a book of a prince and princess and he begins to read it and his brother gets very mad at him and takes him back home and reports him to his father who calls a town council meeting. Before I go on the little mouse has /is about to learn a very important lesson. Once the meeting began it was an almost an immediate decision that he was to be sent to the dungeon because he was an improper mouse and to the dungeon it was. The only reason for this is because they were trying to shape him.


 * 1) 2 If this were me in his situation and I was about to be sent to the dungeon because I was not learning the way people wanted me to I would go into the dungeon and at the bottom of the stairs I would disappear and when they left I would walk right back up the steps and not let them see me for a couple of months and then come back to them and tell them I survived the rats of the dungeon. If his father who is in the mouse council sent his own son to the dungeon to face the wrath of the rats it must mean something like, " OH I can just send my son to a rat-infested dungeon just because he is not following the mouse ways and he is weird looking and he has his eyes open to soon" And this was not the mouses decision to be sent to the dungeon with a necklace of red thread around his neck, it was not his intention of having his eyes open early or having big ears and an entire colony worth of mice who hate him. His dad is the one who sent him to the dungeon and he did not fight for his son's freedom, nor did his mother, who only wept, or his own brother who only shook his head. This moment was very sad for our little mouse who was now on his own. His family said nothing and nor the council.

No one should try to shape you tell you what to do, or make you the kid THEY'VE always wanted but you do not want to be. For example when a person grows up and moves out of the house and they get a job they are doing what they want to do even if they are doing what thier parents did they will still have applied and interviewed for the position and the parents will always be happy that their child has gotten a job of their dreams. but then it is realized that they still tried to shape you. No one should try to shape you because you are you In the tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo a mouse has to find courage in his heart to prove that he is brave.
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Bravery takes courage -He was sentenced to death by his own father. -he got out of the dungeon alive It takes heart. -he was very careful about how he was plotting the rescue. -he lasted a while in the dungeon with no food. You have to know what you want. -He wanted to get the princess back to safety and away from the rats -He wanted the princess to be out of the dungeon alive