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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 up getting killed by him herself. Also, Felldoh died toward the end-- he
had fought Badrang one-on-one but the lousy cheater called his army to help him. Felldoh,
being a great warrior, killed many of Badrang's men but did not kill Badrang himself.
Brome still lived, but found he did not like war, so he became a healer.
Some of the characters that Martin encountered along his travels changed from being his
enemies to being his allies. The creatures changed when Martin was off to go fight the
tyrant and when he and his friends asked them to which to join fight the tyrant so he
could not capture any more creatures for his slaves and makes his horde any more
powerful. Sometimes it did not seem believable because of how they turned from enemies to
allies instantly and why they joined without even knowing who Badrang the tyrant was.
I felt like I had a similar relationship when Martin was leading his army into battle. I
have this feeling when I'm a captain of my basketball team and I have the partial
responsibility of leading them to victory or defeat. I thought that the best scene in the
book was when Martin's army attacked the tyrant's fort for the second time. It reminds me
about whenever I lead or am a part of an activity of some sort, like basketball or
tennis.
I think that the title, Martin the Warrior, is fitting because it's simple and it tells
what the book is about. I liked the author's style of telling what was going on in the
book and how he described it. He made it feel like you were actually there. The story
made me feel good in the end, when Martin's army defeated the tyrant. I liked this
because I love the feeling of victory.