One of the biggest challenges we face in life is learning to understand and accept one another for who and what they are. This happens with our peers in school. This happens between people from different cultures and religions. This happens between people of different generations and between males and females.
Understanding one another takes time and effort. This is the very lesson that Martin has to learn in the book Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith.
Throughout history, writers have often chosen to make very strong statements about life and about the nature of human beings by making comparisons with animals. Why do you think that is? Should humans feel insulted for being compared to animals? What point is the author trying to make when comparing humans to animals?
Let's take a good look at Martin and see what we think.
Martin is a farm kitten
Martin likes mice, though not to eat, but as pets and friends