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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Reflections

1.The three problems faced by Mrs. Frisby are Timothy is sick, Dragon the cat preys on the farm animals, and she needs to feed her family. Mrs. Frisby’s solution to timothy being sick is going out and getting medicine from Mr. Ages. When Dragon preys on Mrs. Frisby and Jeremy, Jeremy has Mrs. Frisby get on his back and he drops her off a yard away from her house. Mrs. Frisby’s job in her family is to provide food for them and when their food is scarce she finds an abandoned stump with eight ears of corn inside of it. I think that Mrs. Frisby is loving to her children because she goes out of her way to medicine for timothy, and is heroic because she helps Jeremy to crow to get untied from the fence. I think she is compassionate because she gathers the food for the family, helped Jeremy get untied and got medicine for timothy.

2. A.The message that the writer is trying to send us is that everyone needs to help out one another even if you don’t know them, you could even make a new friend if you try. B. Moving day is when the mice and other animals have to move out of the garden and back to the meadow or the pasture because when winter is over the garden is plowed so more plant can be grown. It was such a big dilemma to Mrs. Frisby and Timothy, because they had discovered that Timothy had pneumonia and he couldn't breathe cold air because if he did his pneumonia might come back. C. Mrs. Frisby had remembered her husband saying "All doors are hard to unlock until you have the key." What i think he meant was every problem has a solution, but her every problem will be hard until you find the solution. Thinking Question. The help from Mr. Ages, which helped solve Timothy's sickness, and Jeremy offer to help will help solve a problem in the future, therefore they both helped solve problems. Thinking Question 2. Mrs. Frisby's key that she needs to find is a way to get them not to plow, and the advice that Mr. Ages and Jeremy would give to Mrs. Frisby is to keep on trying and don’t give up. When i don't know what need to believe in myself, have faith in myself, keep on trying even if its hard, and never give up on myself. Every problem has a solution, but every problem is hard unless you know the solution.

3. While Mrs. Frisby was worrying about moving day, she had forgotten that she was originally out to ge corn for her family's dinner that night, now that she had remembered she went to get the corn instead of continuing home.Then she saw something sparkle in the corner of her eye, and it was a bit of tin foil. Then she noticed that Jeremy the crow had came down to get the little bit of tin foil and was about to pick it up and fly away, but she stopped him before he could. Then Jeremy and Mrs. Frisby had a long but nice chat, then she mentioned a favor he could do for her. After that they waved goodbye, and met the next day early in the morning, and started off to the forest to ask the owl a question. When they got there the owl made Mrs. Frisby come in just so he could see her. Finally he asked her to state what her problem was.

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5. Mrs. Frisby and Timothy change "child-parent" roles because Timothy started to think about moving day and Mrs. Frisby wasn't thinking or worrying about it at all. Mrs. Frisby learns that the rats in the rose bush have technology like elevators, and lights, they also had architecture like the entrance, the arched hallways, and the library.

6. The meaning of the advice that the owl gave Mrs. Frisby was to have the rats from the rose bush move her house into the lee of the stone near her house so the plow doesn't plow her house. Mrs. Frisby learned that "in the lee" meant the sheltered part of the stone, she also learned that her husband died trying to put sleeping powder in Dragon's food bowl, and she learned that the rats and two mice (the mice were Mr. ages and her husband) came from NIMH, and they had all been captured and put in cages on the wall in a laboratory to be "lab experiments." While being "lab experiments" they were tagged, poked two times a week with a needle, went in a maze that shocked you when you went into certain rooms, and they learned to read.

7. The rats learned to read by watching pictures with appearing letters underneath the picture. They watched the pictures with letters underneath everyday, because the people made them increase their intelligence. The escape from the lab was intelligent because it take intelligence to open all of the cages, open the vent, find the thread and screwdriver, and to open the wire screen fastened from the outside to get away. The escape also shows responsibility because they were responsible when they opened the cages. The escape showed civilization by helping us visualize how they were living in the cages and why they wanted to escape. They had become irregular rats.

8. The signs that the rats have totally transformed into different creatures and that they now have a different identity, are that they can read signs and know where to go, they found a electric can opener to open the food can, and they noticed that in the Boniface estate that no one was in the house so they moved in and clean up after themselves, and hide from the gardener that checked to see if the house was okay. The reactions of other rats and mice are they look up to the rats of NIMH and they look puny and weak. The rats worry about stealing food because they worry that their going to be caught. The greatest discovery that the rats make about the Boniface estate is that there is a library so they could practice reading and writing. The rats are basically mega rats or the rats of nimh.

9. Ms.Frisby is showing kindness to her children by not telling them that she is going to put sleeping powder in Dragon’s bowl. She could die by doing that and she is giving her children a favor by not making them worry. Self-Sufficient means able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid. The rats want to be self-sufficient because they learned that they are the most hated animals by humans, and if they can learn to plant or make their own food they would be liked a little more.

10. The rats admire the monks of the Middle Ages because they read, write, live in monasteries, studied, grew their own food, build their own houses, built their own furniture, made their own tools, and they made their own paper. Reading about this, they began to get ideas of how they might live. These reasons are also the reasons the monks are self-sufficient. The Rats were/are hated because they spread diseases, they steal, and they stow away on mens ships and gnaw holes in the floors, then stole their food, and they were accused of biting human children. Im a book in the boniface estate library prairie dogs are descendants the the rats, also prairie dogs made the mistake of growing lazy and soft, and letting the monkeys come in and take over the prairies and almost everything else. So when the rats leave Fitzgibbon’s farm they want to lead an independent and stealing-free life like the monks.

11. A. The allegorical story of the vacuum cleaner business shows us that taking the easy way out is not always the right thing to do, because, in the end of the story things were not better then they were before. For example when the people used a mop and broom the town was cleaner than it was with the vacuums, because the factory produced a huge amount of smog in the city and the women have to work almost twice as hard as they used to. B. Jenner disagrees with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley, because Jenner thinks they shouldn’t just leave what they worked hard to get and it would just be a waste. Jenner and his followers left because they disagreed with all the others. C. Mr. Frisby showed kindness to his wife by keeping the secret of not aging and her probably dying before him so she wouldn’t be sad, feel hurt, feel lonely, and left out. D. Doing the right thing is being nice and not being greedy and doing what’s right. The author wants us to see that doing what’s right and being civilized are both a right thing to do.

12. A. While Mrs. Frisby is captured she hears the Fitzgibbons talking about rats and learns that the government is coming to exterminate the rats. B. Mrs. Frisby being captured is a good thing because she learns that the rats are going to be exterminated. C. Other reasons that it is good that she was captured are she knows when they are coming to exterminate, and she learned that 7 rats were electrocuted at a hardware store.

13. Mrs. Frisby wants to escape and tell the rats that they are going to be exterminated in 2 days, she says that the rats need to hurry with their plan. The message the author want us to see is that with intelligence, goodness, bravery, and a civilization we can do what’s right for us. The rats move Mrs. Frisby’s house by digging it out and using a system to move it, they dig the house out of the ground and use pulleys to pull it over the ground and put rollers underneath the block and roll the house into its new spot, it showed specialization of labor because they don’t usually move houses, it shows intelligence because of how they moved the house, and it shows resourcefulness, and cooperation because they use their resources wisely and they had to work together.

14. Timothy’s breathing was quiet and easy, and now that the house was moved they could live there forever if they wanted to. The rats thought that the people might have been from NIMH and they would be looking for them so they were leaving in the morning. They were curious about the rats in the hardware store, so they destroy where they lived and took everything out of it. That the people will be looking for them, and they will dig up where the rats were living. They don’t want to be found by the people from NIMH. They will be leaving evidence around of the tools they had.

15. The author wants to state that intelligence, courage, and responsibility are related to the idea of being civilized because you need to have courage to try to be civilized and try new things, and meet new people, and you need to be intelligent because you need to have an education to run something, and you need to have responsibility to run a civilization because you need to be responsible and tell the truth and you need to be trusted. The exterminators show intelligence by putting the gas mask on and covering the back entrance. The rats make the dummy exit and that shows that they are intelligent. Mrs. Frisby witnessed Mr. Ages saving Brutus by giving him a poison antidote.