Talk:Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

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[edit] Clarity Issue

This sentence is a lead weight.

The novel relates the plight of a widowed field mouse, Mrs. Frisby, whose family must trek every year to a summer home to escape the destruction of their winter home, in a cinder block, by ploughing.

I haven't read the book, but I think it should be

The novel relates the plight of a widowed field mouse, Mrs. Frisby, whose summer home is destroyed every year by ploughing, and who must trek with her family to their winter home in a cinder block.

Is "in a cinder block" necessary for such a short article? Is this the most important stuff, or just a summary of what happens first? Prof jerz 16:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Their normal home is threatened by the plow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.227.33 (talk) 22:42, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What does NIMH mean anyway?

What does "NIMH" mean, anyway? — JIP | Talk 05:57, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

National Institute of Mental Health. AJD 06:52, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I had hoped it would be something more mystic, though. — JIP | Talk 18:57, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Nimh, f, poison, venom" -- Gaelic-English dictionary. It's a possible double-meaning in the books. *shrug* 24.88.16.137 30 June 2005 03:37 (UTC)

[edit] Ending incorrect?

That bit at the end about what happens after the rats help Mrs. Frisby is either incorrect or I had a severely abbreviated copy of the book, for that's where it ended.

i think that is right because in 6th grade i read this book and now in 7th so i remember it still the book is interesting but queit long.

[edit] Ficticious Laboratory?

From the article : "... Nicodemus, who relates their capture, experimentation at a (fictitious) laboratory at NIMH ...". Does this mean that Nicodemus made up the story about the laboratory in NIHM? Or that there isn't really such a place in the real world? this place is real its in Ohio.(9624 sw 45 crt)
The NIHM does exist in real life, but I think that we can safely assume that they do not have a laboratory where they are creating highly intelligent rats (or at least not one that the author and general public are aware of). Within the story though, there is no reason to assume that the lab is not real, so Nicodemus probably didn't make up the story about the lab. In real life though the NIHM is not a ficticious institute, BUT that laboratory is. --O crandell (talk) 16:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)