Mrs.+Frisby+and+Rats+of+NIMH

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH The message of Robert C. O’Brien’s novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is being **civilized**. In the novel we see the rats we see the rats being civilized because they build a shelter, food and running water which equals off to electricity. This lesson, or message, will be supported with examples from the novel. The message of Robert C. O’Brien’s novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is being civilized and making and environment without stealing. In the novel we see how___. ** David cannizzaro Monday ** ** A l ** ** In the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of nimh, the dangers in the book are that one of the mice are very sick and if he inhales one breath of air he could get sick and possibly die. The mice have to leave the garden because of the plow. That will destroy their home so they have to leave and find a better habitat, but since that one mouse is sick they won’t go. Mrs. Frisby went to the owl for help. ** ** b ** ** Mrs. Frisby faces these problems with going to the owl. The owl is very old and been around there for a long time so she infers that he can help her. Some of Mrs. Frisby positive traits are, caring, thoughtful, and curious. ** ** David Cannizzaro ll a, b-b,c ** ** When Jeremy {crow} says, "We all help one another against the cat" he means that cats kill birds and mice so he meant it as we need teamwork here if we want to have our lives. This means that teamwork and cooperation is needed if they don’t cooperate then the crows are in danger and the mice but since one head is better than one they team up to stand against the cat and that’s how they became friends. ** ** There was a big problem other than timothy right now, because he began to heal. The big problem right now is moving day it destroys where they live. That have to face this problem and it is a very big problem. ** ** Moving day is a day when the mice have to get out because of the dangerous plow. A plow is something that digs up the ground and grinds it up so the soil is ready for planting vegetables and fruits. This is not a very exciting thing for the mice they have to get out before it’s too late. If the plow is there it’s too late they can’t escape. The other problem about moving day this time is timothy is a little bit better but is too weak and he should not breathe cold air or hell get ammonia. ** ** Mrs. Frisby remembers her husband saying this to all problems and solutions. He said that “all doors are hard to unlock until you have the key”. This saying has a great big meaning and it is that whatever happens you keep trying and that is what she is doing she try’s and try’s and doesn’t give up. It has a great big meaning because if you gave up in life you wouldn’t have anything. That is what the meaning was. ** ** DAVID CANNIZZARO lll ** ** Some events that are important that is happening is, timothy is still sick but his fever is down now but if he breathes any cool air he could get very sick and die. After that Jeremy flew by and she needed his help and he said when he was trapped on the string to the fence Mrs. Frisby helped and if she needed his help ever he would. So then she asked him if he can fly **** here to the owls tree where he lives because he’s the wisest and smartest animal as they say. So he fly her there and of course he insist on helping her. ** ** 5--Write a short response that... ** ** + How on pages 63 and 64 Mrs. Frisby and her son Timothy switch parent-child roles. They switch parent roles because Mrs. Frisby was worried about timothy and timothy just new that it would be okay so that is how they switch roles. ** ** + What Mrs. Frisby learns about the technology and architecture of the rats' sub-rosa world, and what we know ** ** and what we can infer about the rats' "plan." ** ** Mrs. Fisby learns all of the technology and everything she learned that they had a school they also knew how to read books. They developed a plan about moving too. We have similar technology to them and us. They are trying to take over NIMH. **** THE RATS HAD A SECURITY GUARD. ** ** VI. (6.) Read and respond to the following reflection questions:p;p0 ** ** Read Frisby pages 89-111. ** ** Write a short essay that answers and explains the following: ** ** +Describes and explains the meaning of strange advice that Mrs. Frisby is given by the owl. ** ** The owl gave very strange advice. The advice was to go to the rats and ask for nicodemus and Justin because they are wise he told her everything and step by step what two do. ** ** +In the chapter "The Marketplace" and "In the Cage," summarize what Mrs. Frisby and we learn about exactly where the rats come from, what happened there, and how they started to become whom or what they are--intelligent rats. The rats get captured from scientist that want experiment to make rats intelligent it is Cleary impossible but he succeeds he teaches them to read and that followsas intelligent he gives them injections after a while the rats find an escape plan because there so smart now but Dr. Schultz doesn’t. ** ** VII. (7.) Read through page 141. Answer the following: ** ** Describe step-by-step how the rats are taught to read. Explain how/in what way their escape from NIMH shows intelligence and responsibility and civilization. What is the identity of the rats of NIMH? In other words, what have they become? ** ** They taught them to read by taking a card and having a syllable with a picture on it. They would shine a light threw it and then if all the syllables would add up they would be able to read and the syllable added up to r-a-t-s and then they discovered a new world. This helped them to escape and now that they can read they can open the latch because they read the sign and they can get away reading for them is a new world. Now the rats are probably as useful as a human being. **
 * +What two important pieces of information does Mrs. Frisby learn in the chapter "A Powder for Dragon," one about what "in the lee of the stone" means, and another about how Jonathan Frisby had died? - She learns that the rats are much smarter than anyone thought, and they also give sleeping powder to the cat when it’s not awake and do it. They do this so they can get stuff done around their bush or to get stuff inside dragon kills anything it sees birds, rats and mice. Jonathon died because he tried to put sleeping powder and sadly tried and failed and Jonathon got killed by the cat. **

8.) The rats knew they were totally transformed when they looked stronger, they acted intelligent and the rats heard Mr. Schultz say they have double the life span of a normal rat. They also don’t age. The rats were amazed but thought they were not normal they were different. The rats never experienced this feeling they could read and possibly write it felt amazing they could use that knowledge to have for their habitat. The other rats thought of them as monsters and not rats because of their features, it just wasn’t the same. Rats seem to be hated by human civilization. Reasons can be is rats spread diseases but humans spread diseases more and more dangerous. So the rats thought hard and thought stealing is why humans hate us stealing food and supplies, but that’s just how we live the rats said.
 * VIII. (8.) Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 142-148 **
 * ‍ **** Question/Writing: In the chapter **** � **** The Boniface Estate, **** � **** what are the signs that the rats have totally transformed into different creatures, that they now have a different identity? What are the clues (reactions) from other rats that the identity of the rats of NIMH has changed? What discontent, or worry, do the rats start to have about stealing? What is the greatest discovery that the rats make at the Boniface Estate? What does all of this mean about the rats **** � **** identity **** � **** about who they are? **
 * IX. (9.)Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 149-157 **
 * ‍ **** Question/Writing: In the chapter **** � **** The Main Hall, **** � **** what occurs that shows that the author wants to remind us of the theme/message of kindness? Later in this chapter he moves on to the theme of self-sufficiency. Define **** � **** self-sufficiency **** . **** � **** Look it up in the dictionary. Why do the rats want to be self-sufficient? What preparations, or invention, have they made to plan to be self-sufficient? **
 * The rats want to be self-sufficient so they don’t have to live with stealing they can produce their own food. They don’t want to take the want to make. To avoid this any longer they built a plow so it can dig up the ground and let fresh soil come so they can harvest food. That is the plan, so they can be self-sufficient. **

** The rats were admired by the monks because they were first to read and write. They also led simple kind lives. They studied and wrote. They grew their own food. They also built their own houses and furniture. The monks made their own tools and their own kind of paper. They got ides of how they should start to live. The monks were self-sufficient because they built their own houses tools and grew their own food they basically had to work to live. They didn’t do anything that was stealing they basically were their own society. The rats were hated by humans because they did the opposite of the monks they stole food, lived in other human’s property and spread diseases but not quite as much as humans. They lived not by working but by stealing. The humans thought rats bite humans and children but only subnormal rats would do that. Prairie dogs began soft and lazy, while other animals were progressing and the prairie dogs were not progressing. When the rats leave the farm they want to make a whole new way of life they want to start a rat society with producing food not stealing they want to make their own food, which they can do with their plow. They also want to build homes and make a new world. **
 * X. (10.) Read Mrs. Frisby pages 158-164. **
 * ‍ **** Answer the following questions in an extended response of at least eight sentences. Why do the rats admire the monks of the Middle Ages? In what way were the monks self-sufficient? Why were/are the rats so hated? What mistake was made by the prairie dogs, according to a book in the Boniface Estate Library? Based on the answers to these questions, what lesson about the building of a future civilization do the rats make? In other words, when the rats leave the Fitzgibbon Farm, **** how do the rats want to live and what kind of a community do they want to create? **

169-171 mean about the danger of taking the easy way out, of the danger of stealing?
===B. Why does Jenner disagree with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? Why does Nicodemus disagree with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, Captured, we learn why Jenner left. Why did he and his followers leave?===

C. On page 179, what do we learn about Jonathan Frisby that shows his kindness towards his wife? What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? Why did he not tell her this?
===D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the connection between being civilized and doing the right thing"?=== =**Jenner disagrees with Nicodemus because he thinks that we have everything, we have free food, electricity and running water, what else do you want he says. Nicodemus doesnt want to stay. He just doesnt want to stay off a free life. He wants to be living off himself not stolen things like they have now. He wants to move so they can make electricty, water and make thier own food. Nicodemus knows that eventally someone is going to find out about this and he knows they have to move now. Jenner thinks that that is so stupid and they are all ediots. Jenner and his followers left because they thought that moving is dumb. Jenner broke stuff that wasnt his and they just kicked him and his followers out. To this day they dont know where and what happened to them. Jonathon frisby, (Mrs. Frisbys husband) and since he got captured to NIMH he has this power. His power is strengh, ability to read, and he has a very long life span. He never did tell Mrs. Frisby his because it would hurt her so much and she would grow older and older and die while he would stay the same age and not die. The other reason is her kids also could have these powers this would be such a heart breaker to her and jonathon. His kindness lead throughout his life. The author is saying what is the right thing. The right thing is something that you do that wont have an affect on others or could have an affect but a good one. This is meaning what is best like when jonathon did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH. The last is when Nicodemus says lets not steal but produce. The author has a big meaning to all of this what is the right thing.**=

**XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
==**‍ ****Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **== ==**When Mrs. Frisby gets trapped she learns a huge thing that could wipe out there whole civilization. She learns that a exterminator is coming to bull dose her rosebush and put a special gas that kill the rats. She wonders how she can save them by telling them. **== ==**When she is caught, ironically it is a good thing because if she wasn’t they would have no idea at all and there civilization would be gone. When Mrs. Frisby get out she can hopefully warn the other about this dangerous phenomena. **==
 * 1) ==**‍ ****What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **==
 * 1) ==**‍ ****Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **==

==**C. Describe two other examples of "entrapment" [being trapped or caught] that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **==

==**One example is when they got caught and they went to NIMH. That is one example because they would not have the knowledge and strength and would get older, so that is one example ****. ****The other example is when she got trapped in the rats underground place. This was a good thing because they gave her knowledge about everything in the past and about the sleeping powder. That would have been a change of a story if that never ever happened. These were two major trapping and good reason of this. **==