Martin The Warrior

MARTIN THE WARRIOR

Martin In a time of danger A time of hunger

The mouse was a stranger The mouse was strong He

showed the cats With help from some bats How to

behave He showed his pain, anger, and strife The

creatures were thankful As a matter of fact He was

honored for not only a life But for many years to

come The novel, Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques,

is a book about a young mouse warrior named Martin,

son of Luke the Warrior, a mouse that fought sea

rats, One day, after the murder of most of his tribe

(including his wife), Luke set sail to have his

revenge against Vilu Daskar, the stoat pirate

responsible for the massacre. Before he left, he gave

Martin his sword, which had been handed down through

their family since Luke's own grandsire lived. This

book is about how Martin travels through a land full

of moles, squirrels, and other woodland creatures

which talk and walk upright. Martin goes around

meeting creatures from all different lands and asks

them to join his army to fight a tyrant who is

keeping slaves in his fort, Marshank. The plot of

this book is how Martin and his friends fight the

tyrant, Badrang, to free slaves. The main idea of the

book is how and why Martin and his army fight the

tyrant. When Martin was captured as a slave for

Badrang the Tyrant, he was furious. Not only did the

evil rat steal his father's sword, he beat and

mistreated all of the slaves horribly! Devising a

plan, Martin frees himself and two of his friends

from the Marshank, the slave camp: Brome the mouse

and Felldoh the squirrel. Brome's sister, Laterose

(Rose for short) and her companion Grumm the mole all

set out with Martin and his friends to go get help

from their hometown of Noonvale. Unfortunately, due

to the sea's conditions, Martin, Rose, and Grumm get

separated from Brome and Felldoh. The two strings of

the story carry on and tie together at the end:

Martin's group eventually reaches Noonvale, where he

returns to Badrang to get his revenge, and Brome and

Felldoh join the Rambling Rosehip Players, a bunch of

happy-go-lucky animals that made the hardships less

hard, and also get to the slave camp. The ending is

tragic, and whenever I read it I get depressed.

Martin, in the end, retrieves his sword from Badrang,

and succeeds in killing him, but Rose, who he has

become very much attached to, tries to help Martin in

killing Badrang, but only ends