The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

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* {{spoiler|Maurice and Dangerous Beans}} die, and [[Death]] shows up to claim them. This leads to a touching and amusing scene, admittedly, but there's still something odd about the situation. {{spoiler|Beans}} is a rat. Unless there's a forgotten explanation, shouldn't the task of claiming him have gone to someone else? {{smallcaps|Squeak.}}

* At the end, {{spoiler|the people who continue to put down traps and poison after seeing the Clan are described as having minds that "can't be changed with a hatchet".}} Seriously? After all of the protagonists have no problem with killing non-sapient rats, ''including the Clan themselves'', ''this'' is the Aesop you go for?

** It's by no means true that none of the protagonists have a problem with killing non-sapient rats. The older rats don't, and the younger ones let Maurice away with it because, well, he's a cat (and you can always trust a cat to be a cat), but: