The Tale of Despereaux

Srishti Ghosh

3^rd Period/L.A.

10/18/10

Up to End of Chapter 15 (starting page- 81)

The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo

 I feel so sorry for Despereaux. I connect this story with WW2 because in WW2 the Nazi’s wee killing Jewish people because they were different. By sending Despereaux to the dungeon the Mouse Council thinks he will die but he would not have to go is he acted like the other mice. I’m happy to see that Despereaux didn’t renounce hi acts because he did nothing wrong. The mice should just let Despereaux live however he wants. I think Kate DiCamillo wrote this story as an anthropomorphism because she tries to show how humans usually judge other humans a certain way just because they are different but she uses mice instead of human in the first part at least. This book is fantastic. I have read it 7 times and definitely recommend it. You will enjoy it very much and enjoy watching Kate DiCamillo weave all the different parts of the story into one great story. If you want to become a writer you should read to look at an example of some really good writing. It models what a great piece should be like. I predict that Kate DiCamillo began writing at a young age to accumulate all the skills it took to write this book.