Friday, January 9, 2009

Natural vs. Learned in WD - Jan 9

What is natural versus what is learned? Ideas and quotes:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. They had natural instincts like fleeing, breeding, etc
2.One example of learned behavior supressing instincts is their learned behavior to fight instead of running
3. Gen Wounwort, Cowslips Warren, and Hazels group all deviated fron "natural bhavior"

Anonymous said...

4. They learned that friends could be helpful and used them to their advantage. They started using some of their "thousand enemies" to their advantage.
5. In Efrafa, they learned to forget anything any advice that was shut down, like double think. (Pg 389)
6. In the warren with the shining wire, the rabbits had learned to live in a way that was very unlike rabbits. They started arts like poetry and mural type things which were all part of the way of life they learned to deal with.

Unknown said...

7. Blackberry, Hazel, and Strawberry came up with a lot of ideas for the group from learning thoughout there many journeys.

8.Fiver had visions that were natural to him that helped the entire group to succeed in many life threatening situations.

9. The group learned how to make a better burrow throughout the novel after visiting Efrafra and after the males teaching themselves to dig when they were forced to because of the lack of does.