Warrior Cats: Into The Wild

Hello everyone.  I am really happy today!  Not all of you may know but, I foster animals.  Well today I just learned that I can keep the littlest of the three Himalayan kittens we are fostering!  I have never been able to own a cat because some of the people in my family are allergic but, for what ever reason these kittens do not bother their allergies.  This gave me an idea for my next blog.

So, today I am going to tell you all about one of Erin Hunter's books.  I am only going to tell you about the first book of one of her series - Warrior Cats: Into The Wild.  Many of you have probably read at least this first book but I beat not all have you read all the books because there are many of them.  I also beat that most of you don't know that Erin Hunter (the author) is actually six different women.

Well, anyway back to the book.  The first book is about Rusty, a house cat who is not satisfied with the house cat life.  He is just a kitten but he hates the dry cat food his owners feed him and even though he loves the warmth of his kitty pet home he loves the feeling of being out doors.

One day Rusty decides to jump over the fence in his backyard and into the world beyond.  When he starts to head into the woods behind his house he soon runs into a small group of wild cats.  Normally upon finding a house cat in their territory the wild cats would chase him away but they seemed to notice something different about Rusty.  They let him come back with them to their home.

When Rusty gets to the cats clan home he immediately feels at home,  more than he ever did in his kitty pet home.  The clan is not competently sure of him but their leader Bluestar tells everyone that they should let him have a chance because the clan, Thunderclan, could always use another warrior.  Being as young as Rusty was he was easily able to be placed into an apprentice group.  In fact, he gets the great honor of having Bluestar as his mentor.  As an apprentice Rusty gets the new name of Firepaw.

He soon becomes friends with other apprentices such as Graypaw and Ravenpaw.  Throughout the entire book the apprentices must prove that they are worthy of becoming warriors.  While trying to fulfill their duties young Ravenpaw finds out that his mentor kills the clans deputy in order to get the position himself.  Ravenpaw fears that his mentor, Tigerclaw, will kill him if he found out that he knew.  (Which he would).  Ravenpaw tells his two friends that what he knows and his friends help him leave the clan and go to a rouge cat territory so he can be safe of Tigerclaw.

Tigerclaw soon becomes a danger to Firepaw and Graypaw because they know what he did.  Although this seems to be only a small problem compared to the problems that Thunderclan is having with the other clans, especially the Shandowclan.  Shadowclan seems to not have any regard for the clan laws.  They are out to murder their old medicine cat, one of their own killed their leader to be in his place, they ar hunting and invading other clans territories,  and they are stealing other clans kittens to strengthen their own.  Also, the other Tunderclan warriors doubt Firepaws loyalty.  Will he ever have their respect?