Something to think about (and connecting it to NIMH)

Personally, I think humans are exremely intelligent and because of this, they just tend to do things that go over the line of doing what must be done as living organisms on the planet. Humans originally hunted and gathered, and discovered a more efficient way of getting food, and started to compete to gain the food, and years and years later they took advantage of it and started to gain other people's property for their own profits (through colonization, etc). Soon these caused revolutions and war. Regardless to the purpose of the war, they have never ended and are still going on now. Ironically, World War II was said to be "the war to end all wars." Look at the world now. World War II conflicts continued into the Cold War, and the wars now are conflicts that have been going on since WWII and the Cold War.

I take a Modern History class and was really moved by the whole subject throughout the year. My teacher has asked the class many questions that can be debatable.

We have to understand that Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, its sequals, The Secret of NIMH, its sequel, and anything else related are all fictional stories that tell us themes that hit us and can be something important to our lives. But interestingly enough, the rats of NIMH were the result of human profit... the will to experiment and to know the results. As we can see through the conflict between Nicodemus and Jenner, the rats of NIMH to me, represent us humans and how we face life. Mrs. Brisby and her way to solve things is still the main subject of the novel and the theme, but I think there is more than that that Robert C O'Brien wanted to tell the readers.

It worries me to think how in the world of imagination, there actually is Thorn Valley and soon there will be a conflict occuring through the events that have occured so far. The way I see it, the way Martin's envy led him into the will to rule Thorn Valley is "a conflict."

Anyway, to make a long explanation shorter, through the rats of NIMH, I see how conflicts that were formed once can lead to even bigger conflicts.

Yes, of course we can think positively and believe that a conflict like what happened in the book and movie will never happen again in the colony. But if there really were a Thorn Valley, and if there really were rats and mice as intelligent as humans, within that colony there will be a much smaller planet earth that will grow and grow, and that the colonists may split and cause a conflict in someway. Whether it be a continuation between Nicodemus vs. Jenner, Mice vs. Rats, even family vs. family, like what happened in NIMH 2.

I just think that as fans of "The Secret of NIMH," we get a great chance and opportunity to think about humans and their mistakes and how they get repeated and even expanded.

Any opinions or questions about what I'm trying to tell you all?

That was a real good explanation, man. That is pretty much what I had planned for the fan-fic I have been working on.