Summary Of The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Take the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Put it in a blender. Take all the fairytales you've heard when you were kids and squeeze out all the good bits and add it to the blender. Blend till the mixture is quite smooth. Now add a pinch of salt. That's the recipe for Terry Pratchett's “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents”.
Maurice is a talking tomcat with the perfect scam. He gets together with a stupid-looking kid with a flute and a plague of intelligent rats to fool towns into believing they have the rat plague. But that is till they reach the town of Bad Blintz.
The story twists and turns around the fantastic concept that rats are intelligent. But, as the author himself said in his acceptance speech for the Carnegie Award, it is about the even more fantastic idea that humans are capable of intelligence as well.
In the town of Bad Blintz, we have some ratty rat catchers and a catty girl. But the Clan and Maurice would be offended if we called them that. The characters in the book muck around of their own free will. The girl, Malicia, is quite the reader and loves to spin tales around everyday situations. But the rat …show more content…
Dangerous Beans is their religious leader, a blind white rat. Peaches is his associate, Hamnpork is the Clan leader and Darktan is in charge of the troops. From the time they Changed and began to talk, think and ideate, Dangerous Beans has been curious about their existence, why they do what they do. Between these characters, the author has eloquently explored subjects like religious conflict, faith and belief, reading skills, story-writing skills, old age, leadership qualities, racism, moving on and getting it over with. And we all know reality can get ugly. But in Bad Blintz, reality is dark, evil and sometimes ambiguous on-moral issues (but they are resolved in the end). The book fluctuates between satire and comedy and blood and
Take the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Put it in a blender. Take all the fairytales you've heard when you were kids and squeeze out all the good bits and add it to the blender. Blend till the mixture is quite smooth. Now add a pinch of salt. That's the recipe for Terry Pratchett's “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents”.
Maurice is a talking tomcat with the perfect scam. He gets together with a stupid-looking kid with a flute and a plague of intelligent rats to fool towns into believing they have the rat plague. But that is till they reach the town of Bad Blintz.
The story twists and turns around the fantastic concept that rats are intelligent. But, as the author himself said in his acceptance speech for the Carnegie Award, it is about the even more fantastic idea that humans are capable of intelligence as well.
In the town of Bad Blintz, we have some ratty rat catchers and a catty girl. But the Clan and Maurice would be offended if we called them that. The characters in the book muck around of their own free will. The girl, Malicia, is quite the reader and loves to spin tales around everyday situations. But the rat …show more content…
Dangerous Beans is their religious leader, a blind white rat. Peaches is his associate, Hamnpork is the Clan leader and Darktan is in charge of the troops. From the time they Changed and began to talk, think and ideate, Dangerous Beans has been curious about their existence, why they do what they do. Between these characters, the author has eloquently explored subjects like religious conflict, faith and belief, reading skills, story-writing skills, old age, leadership qualities, racism, moving on and getting it over with. And we all know reality can get ugly. But in Bad Blintz, reality is dark, evil and sometimes ambiguous on-moral issues (but they are resolved in the end). The book fluctuates between satire and comedy and blood and