Mrs. Brisby ~ The Secret of NIMH

Background

Mrs. Brisby lives with her family in the field of a farmer.  When he goes to till the ground, all the inhabitants of the field must flee, or be killed.  However, Mrs. Brisby's youngest son, Timothy, is terribly ill, and cannot be moved.  In order to stall the tractor, she seeks the help of the Great Owl.  He instructs her to go to the rats who live in the rosebush.  Upon doing so, she learns that they escaped from NIMH, just as her husband had.  Nichodemus, the leader of the group, agreed to have the rats help move her house to a safe place, and gives her a strange red stone.   However, he is later betrayed by Jenner, who kills him as the rats work the mechanisms they are using to lift the Brisby home.  When he falls, the contraption also fails, dropping the house into the thick mud.  Mrs. Brisby, who refuses to watch her family die, grabs one of the ropes.  As she does, the stone around her neck shines brightly, giving her enough power to move the house out of the mud, and place it safely on solid ground.  Shortly after this, the rats leave, with Mrs. Brisby giving the stone to Justin, a friend. 

Why?

Mrs. Brisby loves her family more than anything else in the world.  That's an important value in my book.  She's willing to do anything, no matter the risk to her own life, to save her children.  That's very admirable.

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