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__The tale of Despereaux__ By: Bailey
 * __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. He was willing to risk his life for someone in need and this indeed proves that he is brave.
 * Bravery takes courage.** First,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 predestination . 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.

Next, 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 frightened 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. Ind eed the rat's hearts are dark but that is only because they live in the darkest part of the whole castle. In Despereaux's situation he was born in the light and learned to do every thing he knows (including not being a regular mouse.) and he learned that he loves the princess. And his brother was in search of him right before his father beat the drum that lead him to the dungeon. He was in the princesses room talking to them ( the king and the princess.) and his brother saw him and immediately took him back to the hole in the wall and his fate would be decided. And he found the bravery in his heart to listen to his own death sentence. 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. Unharmed by the rats and he was safe and he got what he wanted. And at the end he ate soup with the princess and some other people and they lived without the rats or any dangers close to that. He has definitely proved that he is brave and that he can do whatever he wants.
 * Bravery takes heart.**
 * You have to know what you want.** Finally, Despereaux rescued the princess from the rats. 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. I would have just followed all of the mouse ways and then I would not have been sent to the dungeon and the rat would have never found out that he was in love with the princess herself, and that he spoke to her and her father the king. This is an example that shows the king that he did not want to be mistaken for something that he was not because the king had bad eyesight. When in the dungeon the rat took a servant and let her into a trap along with the princess who was threatened with death by the rat. All he wanted was to save himself, the princess and see his family.