The Wind In The Willows

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame has challenged the reader to see the world and individuals in different ways, through the adventures of four animal friends that exhibit human behaviour, and through themes like journey, rights and responsibility and friendship and relationships.

The novel is a comment on the English social structure of the late 19th Century during the time of industrialization. In the novel Toad represents the Ruling class, who has wealth, power, privilege, status and responsibility. But Toad can be egotistical and arrogant, according to Rate "perhaps he's not very clever-we can't all be geniuses: and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited." Toad is inspired by venturing off into the unknown. In the novel Toad decides to go travelling. When Toad goes on his journey he rejects all his
The novel is about the importance of friendship and teaches us never to take friends for granted. In the novel Toad decides to go on a journey without considering what his friends might want to do. Toad gets into a great deal of trouble and is sent to jail. While Toad had disappeared from society a lot of chaos occurs and bad things happen when the Stoats and Weasels overtake Toad Hall. The Stoats and Weasels disliked Toad, and didn't want him to return. Despite what the stoats and Weasels though Mole, Rat and Badger stood up for Toad, they knew Toad would return somehow and hoped that he would. Badger and Mole stayed out keeping an eye on Toad hall, trying to figure out what the Weasels were doing and planning ways to win back Toad hall. "Those two poor devoted animals have been camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house… You don't deserve to have such true and loyal friends, Toad, you don't, really. Some day, when it's too late, you'll be sorry you didn't value them more while you had