Wind in the Willows

Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

284 pages

I have finished the the 6th chapter, and I really like it. Mole, Water Rat and Mr Badger have a hard time trying to make Toad a positive, modest toad. Apparently, Toad is still boasting and now he has added another problem to poor Mole and Rat: Toad must try a motor car. And there is no questioning that because he always succeeds in his plans. Mole has a problem, so he sets out for Mr Badger's home, in the middle of the winter night. Mr Badger lets Mole and Rat, who followed Mole frightfully, into his home. Mole  and Rat are on their way back to the Riverbank, when Mole smells his old, abandoned home. Rat thinks that Mole's home is wonderful, and that is the end of the 5th chapter. In the 6th chapter is about Toad. Toad is pretending to be sick, and his friends don't know that. So they try to help him and go to search for a doctor. The moment they are outside, Toad jumps out of bed and grabs his coat. Then he rushes to the bar. On his way he sees a motor car parked in the street. "I must get that motor car!"he says. He jumps into the car. "There can not be any harm," he said to himself, "in my only looking at it!" Toad is sent to the court after driving for many miles. He is sent to prison.