Despereaux Book 1 Summary

Book 1: At the commencement of the first book a small mouse was born with the name of Despereaux in the king’s castle in the Kingdom of Dor. Despereaux was the only one in his litter who was born alive, considering that he will soon die because he was born with his eyes open. He was born in a tiny size and with large ears, and he was different from normal mice. One of his family members taught him how to gnaw on a book, but instead he read the book about a princess, a knight, and true love. Once, he even listened to the king play music stood right next to him, along with doing that he spoke the princess breaking the most basic mice rules. Despereaux’s brother was an observer of his lawbreaking young brother and his encounter with Princess Pea. Soon the Mouse Council found out about Despereaux and learned that his morals are a threat of all the mice. Eventually, the Council gave him an opportunity to repent, but he didn’t. So as a result of his actions he had to wear the “red thread of death” and was forced to go to the dungeon. But he was saved by the jailer, Gregory, and helped to go back to his love.
Once, Roscuro was able to get out of the dark dungeon and go to the higher levels of the castle. Because of his sense of smell, he got the dining room where the King, Queen, and the Princess had a dinner celebration. During the party, Princess Pea looks up at the chandelier, where Roscuro was, and yells out warning everyone because an ugly rat was in the room. Roscuro ended up falling into the queen’s bowl of soup, causing her to die because she was scared and shocked. Ever since the queen died, the king made both soup and rats illegal to be seen or talked about in the Kingdom of