Defend your Clan, even with your life.I will concentrate on the elements of the code that represent the moral core of clan life: If you’re interested, you can read the complete code here: I’m not going to publish the whole code here-significant parts of it concern protocols and rituals, some of which I will discuss later. The Warrior CodeĬlan life is governed by the Warrior Code, a set of rules handed down from the current cats’ ancestors. Although the cats are said to live in the forest, each clan lives and hunts in its own preferred topography: Thunder in deciduous forest, Wind on open moorland, River beside or in the river (their camp is on an island, they swim and catch fish), and Shadow in coniferous forest and adjoining marshland. Each clan typically has around 20–30 members. At the opening of the first story arc (“The Prophecies Begin”), there are four warrior clans: Thunder, Wind, River, and Shadow. The society in the warrior cats’ world is highly structured. They have language (of course), a complex society (similar to the way I imagine a paleolithic hunter-gatherer clan may have been organized), and a religion. Forget the clichés about “herding cats” though these are, anatomically, our familiar domestic cats, they are highly organized and disciplined. I an not going to discuss the stories here, nor the characters, except as necessary to examine the society in which the stories are set, its culture and customs. If you are the sort of person who would enjoy reading adventure/fantasy stories in which all of the characters are cats, I strongly recommend them to you. The books were first recommended to me by members of the TinyKittens Unite group on Facebook-followers of the feral cat rescue group TinyKittens, based in Fort Langley B.C., Canada ( ). These books, which feature a group of cats living in the wild, are classified as juvenile fiction (target ages 8–12), but I find nothing juvenile about the writing, the characters, or the plots. Recently, I have been reading-obsessively, some might say-books from the Warriors series by Erin Hunter ( ).
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