The Tale of Despereaux is a 2003 fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. The mainstream follows the adventure of a rat named Despereaux Tilling, as he begins his quest to save a beautiful human daughter from a mouse. The novel is divided into four "books" and ends with a coda. Each "book" tells the story from the perspective of different characters or groups, and finally it is all combined. This book won the 2004 Newbery Medal Award.
In 2007, the US National Education Association named the book as one of its "100 Books for Children," according to an online poll. Master also made it a summer reading project. In 2012 it ranked 51st among all children's novels of all time in a survey published by the Journal School Library - the second of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100.
In 2008, the book was adapted as an animated film of the same name. In 2018, the book was adapted into a musical by the PigPen Theater Co.
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Plot
A noble mouse named Despereaux saves a princess named Princess Pea.
Book I: A Mouse Is Born
The first book tells of a sick little mouse named Despereaux who was born in a castle with his eyes open. Despereaux, unlike other rats, spends a lot of time reading and really enjoys books on how a knight rescues a princess and they live happily ever after. One day while reading, he heard music that sounded like honey. He followed the voice and took it to Princess Pea and King Philip. He sits at the feet of the king to hear music and falls in love with the princess and talks to him, but the king takes the mice away because the mice are related to the banned mice. Furlough, Despereaux's brother, saw this and told his father, Lester Tilling. Lester called the rat board; Furlough went to collect Despereaux. The mouse board ordered Despereaux to be sent to a dungeon for talking to humans is forbidden. As he goes in the basement, he meets Gregory, the jailer, who rescues him because Despereaux tells the story of Gregory.
Books II: Chiaroscuro
Book II talks about a mouse named Roscuro who, unlike other rats, likes light and is less fierce and cunning than other mice. Finally, he decides to get into the light. He climbed into the chandelier, above the banquet. However, he falls into the queen's soup, and the queen, whose habit states the obvious, says, "There is a rat in my soup," before dying. The princess, now hostile to Roscuro, orders her to leave. Roscuro, angry, wants revenge for the princess. The king, annoyed, forbade the use of spoons, soups, and bowls.
Book III: GOR! Miggery Sow's story
Years before Despereaux and Roscuro were born, a six-year-old girl named Miggery "Mig" Sow witnessed the death of her ailing mother. After that, Mig was sold to work by his father for some cigarettes, chickens, and red tablecloth for a man Mig called "Uncle". Uncle often squealed Mig's ear, making him partially deaf. Mig decides, after seeing the princess passing on a horse, that she wants to be a princess. Mig then sent to work in the castle by the King's soldiers, who say "Uncle" that no human being is allowed to have another. In the castle he grew heavier and became lazy. Mig's main task is to go to the crypt to deliver Gregory the warden as his food and, while there, he meets Roscuro and confesses to him that his greatest desire is to become a princess. Roscuro assures Mig that if he helps her kidnap Princess Pea, she will make her a servant girl so Miggery Sow can become a princess.
Book IV: Called Back to Light
Despereaux escaped from the basement in Gregory's tray that Mig brought back to the kitchen, where he heard his conversation with Roscuro. However, Despereaux was soon discovered by Mig and Cook. Cook, as a woman who hates mice, orders Mig to kill Despereaux. He explains to Mig that his philosophy with rats is "kill them, even if they are dead." When Despereaux tried to escape, Mig cut off his tail with a knife so he could tell Cook that he missed the meecy and at least saved the "meecy" life. Despereaux spent the night in pain, sleeping on a sack of flour. He dreamed of the castle knights with glowing armor, darkness, and light. However, when the knight releases the helmet, the shining armor is empty. Despereaux began to doubt "'happily ever after' and everything he had read and started crying, meanwhile Roscuro took Mig to Princess Pea's room with a knife to kidnap Princess Pea and take her to the dungeon.
The next morning, the castle panic over the missing princess. The guards were sent to search for the dungeon, only to find Gregory dying of starvation, lost in the darkness as Roscuro had chewed the ropes that held him to the entrance of the dungeon. Despereaux was seen by the board of rats, who thought he was a ghost because he was covered in flour from sleeping in a sack of flour. Despereaux forgave his father, at the last request, to sentence him to the dungeon, before mocking the rest of the council. Despereaux continued searching for the King. Despereaux tells the King that he knows that Pea is in a dungeon, but the King refuses to believe him because Despereaux is associated with rats.
Despereaux then goes to Hovis, his mate's friend. Hovis gave him a red thread and sewing needle to use as a sword for his quest into the basement. On his way, he ran to Cook, who had become very worried about the loss of the Pea, he was forced to break the law and make soup. Instead of attacking Despereaux, he offered a soup before meeting him. Mig, meanwhile, learned that Roscuro cheated him to help him kidnap Pea and that he would never be a princess. Roscuro plans to Pea to stay locked in the basement, so she can admire her brightly colored dress, but Despereaux arrives to save Pea and Mig cutting Roscuro's tail with a knife when she refuses to show them the way back. However, many rats arrived at the scene because they followed Despereaux's smell, and the soup he recently ate. Despereaux threatens to kill Roscuro with a needle sewing. Roscuro, caught the smell of the remaining soup at Despereaux's mustache, realizing he did not really want to hurt anyone and started to cry. Pea offered that if Roscuro let him go, he would treat it with soup. Roscuro agrees. Botticelli and other rats are so disgusted with the happiness of all that happens so they return to the dark.
Despereaux and Pea became close friends. Roscuro was allowed into the upper floor of the castle, and reunited Mig's father, a prisoner in the basement, with his daughter. Mig's father promised that he loved Mig and would never leave her. But before this, Roscuro, Mig, King, Pea, and Despereaux gathered for the soup, when Despereaux's friend, Hovis, his parents, and his brother watched in amazement behind the scenes.
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Character
Despereaux Tilling - The lonely character of the story, Despereaux was born as a castle rat and the only living rat from his mother's last trash. Named for sadness and sadness at the time, Despereaux is eccentric among the mice community since birth, because he was born with a small body, giant ears, and open eyes. She grew to be very different from other mice, choosing to read a book rather than eat it, and not learn to run around like any other rat. He becomes fascinated by the fairy tale of a beautiful princess and an armed knight and learns from such ideas of modesty and courage from it, which is opposed by frightened elders as absurd. Through his big ear, Despereaux can listen to the music that the king is playing for his daughter Princess Pea, and therefore, he can meet and fall in love with the human daughter. This behavior, however, does not go undetected by rats, and when he is sent to the dungeon Despereaux must rely on his mind, courage, and inner strength to save himself and the princess.
Princess Pea - Princess Dor and the fifth son of the king and queen, Pea is a sharp-eyed and beautiful girl that Despereaux grew up in honor and love at their first meeting and she also came to worship the rat. Although kind and loved by the people in the castle, Pea is often overcome with loneliness after the death of his mother. Because of her title as a princess, Pea is not used to being told what to do and sometimes feels offended when someone does not appreciate it because of her title. However, when his past actions caused his abduction, Pea came to use his forgiveness, good nature, and place as a noble for the good of the other characters.
Chiaroscuro (known as "Roscuro") - Chiaroscuro was born innocent among evil mice from a dungeon several years before Despereaux. Due to a matching reprimand to the match from the jailer, Roscuro did not act like a rat, afraid of the light. He comes mesmerized by light and kindness, despite objections from his fellow rats. However, his love of light caused the death of the queen, resulting in his plot to take revenge on humans with Princess Pea's kidnapping. In the end, through the actions of Despereaux and the princess and Roscuro's true love for light, he finds redemption of himself.
Miggery "Mig" Sow - Born in rural Dor, Miggery Sow is a child who is often treated badly, because nobody around her cares what she wants. Her mother died when she was very young and soon after, her father sold her to a man whom she was forced to call "Uncle". Miggery Sow had to work for the man she sold for years with little or no thanks. The man will also give him a "voice in the ear," making him almost completely deaf. In spite of his harsh life, Miggery remained a well-thought-out, mean-minded little boy. On his seventh birthday, an unintentional encounter with the royal family caused Miggery to dream of being a princess. When he was twelve years old, he was rescued from slavery by castle soldiers, and he was given a position as servant servant in the castle itself, befriending Princess Pea but into an unintentional pawn in Roscuro's plan.
Botticelli Remorso - Botticelli is a very old one-eared rat who lives in the basement and suspects Roscuro and his abilities. Botticelli believes that the meaning of life is suffering, especially the suffering of others and that Roscuro must act and be part of the rat community. He had taken a gold heart-shaped pendant from a prisoner and hung it on a thin braided rope. Every time he spoke, the locket moved. Botticelli is evil and wishes the princess to die. Later in the book, he leads Despereaux to the princess to kill her later and intends to feed the princess to her army of evil rats.
Merlot - Saudari Despereaux.
Gregory the Jailer - When Despereaux tells the story of Gregory, he saved him from being killed by a rat. He wears a long rope that protects him from getting lost in a dark dungeon. Chiaroscuro chew this rope and as a result, Gregory becomes lost in the darkness and eventually dies.
Furlough Tilling - One of Despereaux's many brothers. He betrayed Despereaux and sent him to the dungeon. He had previously tried to teach Despereaux to fear things and hate him for the difference with other mice. He refused to try to help his brother when he was thrown away. In the end, he proved disgusted with the goodness of Despereaux.
Lester Tilling - Lester Tilling is Despereaux Tilling and the rest of Tillings' father. He sent his own son to the sentence of being exiled to the dungeon (though it was stated that he was crying), in which the rat would no doubt eat it. Later, after Despereaux escaped from the dungeon on Gregory's tray, Despereaux made a visit to the Rat Board, announcing his sentence. Lester was forgiven for what he did to his son.
Antoinette Tilling - French mother Despereaux arrives at Dor in the trunk of a foreign diplomat. She cares too much about her appearance and is often picky. Although like most Despereaux families, Antoinette was not sensitive to Despereaux, he was sad when he was thrown into the dungeon and occasionally defended him in the book.
Cook - The chef's head of the castle who hates a mouse, but has been shown to secretly make soup even banned.
King Philip - King of Dor and Princess Pea's father. He was sad after the queen died to eat a bowl of soup and canned soup, rats and instruments to make soup. She also did not believe in Despereaux when she tried to tell him about Princess Pea's kidnapping.
Source
- Griswold, Jerry, "'The Tale of Despereaux': The World Without Soup is sadly sad", New York Times , November 16, 2003
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