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Ettina
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17 Jun 2014, 8:04 am

I'm kind of surprised at how negatively people are judging the mouse. Those other animals wanted to eat him! And all he did was what he had to do to survive. Do you think he should've just let then eat him? Why shouldn't he use what tools he had at his disposal to save himself from death? Especially when his tactics cause no lasting harm to their targets?



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18 Jun 2014, 5:52 am

Ettina wrote:
I'm kind of surprised at how negatively people are judging the mouse. Those other animals wanted to eat him! And all he did was what he had to do to survive. Do you think he should've just let then eat him? Why shouldn't he use what tools he had at his disposal to save himself from death? Especially when his tactics cause no lasting harm to their targets?


As for me, I don't judge the mouse negatively. Sure he uses his cleverness to survive, and that's a good thing. I didn't mean "take advantage of" in a negative way.



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10 Aug 2014, 12:53 pm

there was an interview with the author in the Guardian a few days ago, and the headline was her saying "I am the mouse in Gruffalo".



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10 Aug 2014, 1:41 pm

I would have been able to follow the deceptions as a teenager.

I would have liked the mouse for meeting the predators' deceptions with even better deceptions.