The Tale of Despereax is a tale of a rat and a mouse. The rat lived on the ship and travelled to different places. He enjoys the presence of humans. This is unnatural for a rat because rats hate sunlight and humans. Rats established their own underground city.
The tale really started on soup day. On Soup day, the chef would make a surprise soup for the whole city. Then the King would say the name of the soup to the whole kingdom. The Chef was fixing the soup with his good imaginary friend. They would make the actual soup better. His friend was made of food and had better taste then him. The problem occurred when Rocuro(the sea rat) escaped his human. He went to see the soup up close. When the royal family was drinking the soup, he fell into the Queen's soup. With fright of the dirty rat, she fainted. Later that day, the Queen died.The king was horrified and pronounced to the kingdom that making soup, drinking soup and smelling soup is illegal. The housing of rats and mice is illegal. Anyone found housing a rat or mice would have a severe punishment. This was devasting for the kingdom. For a very long time, the kingdom has no rain and the people are sad. The sadest person was princess pea. She missed the rain, the soup and the rats.
The tale goes on when Despereaux was born. He was a large eared mouse. He was tiny for his age. In his mind, he is the biggest of them all. He befriended the princess and swore to bring back the soup and the rain. He showed the mice population the light. The Chef started making soup, even though it was illegal. When people smelled his soup, they had a jolt of happiness. Roscuao , Despereaux and the Chef helped bring light to the kingdom. The soup brought happiness to the royal family,the people, the rats , and the mice. The people and animals lived happily ever after.
The Mouse named Despereaux was never born normal. Despereaux did not run away from danger. He was a gentlemen, he was brave, and he was fearless. His characteristics was not a mouse. His parents would fret over his fearlessness. He had the strength to talk to a human. He talked to the princess. This was an illegal act. Despereaux could expose the mice population to the humans. The council banished him to the rats. While he was in the rat city, he was almost fed to the big cat. The sea rat saved his life. ( The sea rat was the rat that lived on a ship his whole life until the crew left without him.) He dropped into the sewers and landed among the other rats. He never got used to their way of life. He was an outsider. Despereaux was an outsider as well because he did not fear. The sea rat liked humans and sunlight. Their outstanding qualities helped saved the princess and the city.
