In Richard Adams’s Watership Down it tells the tale of a group of rabbits who choose to leave their home because of suspected danger in staying. The group is led by a rabbit named Hazel. The group includes Hazel, his brother Fiver, and nine other rabbits. The rabbits leave their home into a world of adventure, that no rabbit has ever been before. According to Joseph Campbell in all fiction The hero’s leaves The known world and enters a new one. In Watership Down, the rabbits cross of the threshold is when they’re entering the woods and crossing the river. In the chapter five, where their adventure really begins, the chapter starts right when they are setting their journey towards the woods. In the beginning of chapter five the story…show more content… However, their departure properly takes place when they step foot into the woods. The entrance is written in the book as, “It was getting on towards moon set when they left the fields and entered the woods (Adams, 22).” It shows their official leave from their warren to a home. These display the formal crossing of the threshold into unknown land. Besides the leave into the woods another cross of the threshold is the crossing of the river in chapter eight. After they enter the woods sometime after that they reach a river in which they are forced to cross because a potential threat. When the rabbits are crossing it shows a separation from the warren, almost like a wall dividing the warren and the other side. The crossing of the river written in the book as, “He [Hazel] watched them as they went in…The others paddled and scrambled over somehow, and as they began to reach the other side.” This shows the crossing of not just the river, but also the “wall”, they are separating themselves from the other side that hold their old warren so they can start a new one. This is also another crossing of the threshold for it’s the crossing of their “wall”. The entrance into the woods is the real leave from their warren and into a different lifestyle, however, the crossing of the river is too, they both are major keys in their
