Blog 10C-Analysis-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Blog 10C-Analysis: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

After finishing Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and talking about it in class, the idea of nature versus humanity much more clear to me. The rats, which are animals, are born illustrating the idea of nature. They lived in a storm sewer pipe and snuck out at night to eat garbage leftover from the farmers market. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the rats till they were captured and tested in a laboratory setting. Before Nicodemus was captured he stated, “It was a rough life, but not so hard as you might think, because of the market.” This statement by Nicodemus perfectly illustrates the rats living in nature happily with few worries but getting food on Sundays in the Marketplace.

Upon the escape of the rats, and the few mice that made it, the rats no longer looked to live in a place such as the farmers market. They looked for something grander, for they were smarter and stronger. Nicodemus described it as, “We had, in a way, to learn all over again how to get along, for although the world outside the laboratory was the same, we were different.” He then goes on to describe how they had to eat garbage a few times and it is almost as though they are disgusted by this. This difference in the way they rats thought about themselves before and after the lab show just how much different their lives are from the marketplace to the rosebush. Being contrasted with electricity, elevators, and even windows the rats lives inside the rosebush are so much more advanced than their simple lives in nature by the marketplace. This is why the rats, especially Nicodemus, are eager to move ahead with the plan and no longer have to rely on the humans for everything that they want in life.