Write how everything about the rabbit finally ended
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England is known for its greenery and abundance of rabbits. Alan Brownjohn in his
poem The Rabbit presents England as exhibiting its last living rabbit; a situation that has
cropped up due to man‟s indiscriminate killing of all creatures in order to promote
urbanization of the whole world. An ordinary creature like a rabbit has gained incredible
popularity because of its rarity.
People are excited at the prospect of seeing the rabbit. They announce the matter to
everybody saying, “We are going to see the rabbit, We are going to see the rabbit” They
travel from far away places with the hope of watching the rabbit sitting and nibbling
grass „on the only patch of grass‟. They undertake a tedious journey of traveling through
escalators, motorways, helicopterways, etc. to reach the spot where the rabbit is
exhibited.
Elaborate arrangements are made at the site of the exhibition of the rabbit. There are
mounted policemen patrolling the area. Loudspeakers and banners are used. The bands
play music. The floodlights, neon lights, and sodium lights are used to keep the rabbit in
the lime light. By virtue of it being the last rabbit in England, it has become a rare
spectacle.
The rabbit refused to move. The children wetted its mouth with warm milk but gave no sign. So, the children wrapped the rabbit in a piece of flannel. Put it in a dark corner of the cold parlour and put a saucer of milk before its nose, At midday after school, the children found the still and unmoving in the piece of flannel. However at tea time, they found the rabbit had jumped a few inches, out of its flannel but then sat again uncovered and silent. Then, the children wrapped the rabbit in the old flannel. It was then carried into the scullery and put under the fire place so that in night imagine itself inside a hole. Next morning when the children open the scullery. They heard a slight movement and saw of milk all over the floor. They saw the rabbit alive.