Booklist believed the book would appeal to followers of Brian Jacques' Redwall series. Into the Wild was critically well received. Themes include family, loyalty, death, courage, and survival. The style has been compared to the Harry Potter series, J.R.R. The story uses a lexicon with words such as "Twoleg" substituted for "human" or "new-leaf" for "spring". She feels that Erin Hunter must have a consistent voice the entire series. Holmes has compared the style of the book to a different language as the books are written by three separate authors. After creating one storyline Holmes brought in Kate Cary to finish writing the book as Holmes went behind the scenes to edit and supervise the details.
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The series began in 2003 when HarperCollins requested Holmes to write a book on feral cats. The novel is written from the perspective of Fireheart (previously known as Rusty for a short time, then, for most of the book, Firepaw). He is trained to defend and hunt for the clan, becomes embroiled in a murder and betrayal within the clan, and, at the end of the book, receives his warrior name, Fireheart, after a battle with another clan. The story is about a young domestic cat named Rusty who leaves his human owners to join a group of forest-dwelling feral cats called ThunderClan, adopting a new name: Firepaw.
The book has been published in paperback, and e-book formats in twenty different languages. It is the first novel in the Warriors series. The novel was published by HarperCollins in Canada and the United States in January 2003, and in the United Kingdom in February 2003. Yellowfang, having proved her loyalty, becomes ThunderClan's new medicine cat, while Firepaw and Graypaw are made warriors (full members of the Clan) and receive their warrior names, Fireheart and Graystripe.Into the Wild is a fantasy novel about the lives of fictional cats, written by a team of authors using the pseudonym Erin Hunter. Together, with some help from within ShadowClan, they drive out Brokenstar, the evil leader of ShadowClan. Firepaw and Graypaw, follow Yellowfang's scent to ShadowClan territory, to find out the truth about Spottedleaf and the missing kits.
Everyone believes that it was Yellowfang who took the kits, because she disappeared the moment the kits were discovered missing. After this, Clawface of ShadowClan kills Spottedleaf, and steals some ThunderClan kits. The new deputy, Lionheart, is killed during the fight, and Tigerclaw is named deputy. Tigerclaw knows that Ravenpaw saw him kill Redtail, so Firepaw and Graypaw help Ravenpaw escape the forest to live on a farm, because Tigerclaw plans to kill Ravenpaw for knowing his secret.Īfter driving out WindClan for more hunting territory, ShadowClan tries to drive out ThunderClan, leading to a battle. Tigerclaw killed Redtail because he wanted to be deputy instead. Firepaw later learns from Ravenpaw that the former deputy was not killed by an enemy Clan, but by Tigerclaw, a ThunderClan warrior. In a battle that takes place right before Firepaw joins ThunderClan, the ThunderClan deputy (second-in-command), Redtail, dies. The four Clans, ThunderClan, WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan, fight with each other to occupy hunting grounds. He finds another friend in Yellowfang, an old and grumpy medicine cat who was exiled from ShadowClan and taken into ThunderClan. He learns to hunt and fight, and he learns about Clan traditions. The other Clan cats are initially reluctant to accept Firepaw because of his house cat origins, but he slowly earns a place in the Clan.įirepaw becomes friends with the apprentices Graypaw and Ravenpaw, and falls in love with the Clan's medicine cat (a Clan healer with spiritual abilities) Spottedleaf. He decides to accept her invitation to join her Clan and becomes Firepaw, an apprentice of ThunderClan. Bluestar is the leader of one of the four wild cat Clans living in the nearby forest. Rusty goes into the forest anyway, and meets the leader of ThunderClan, Bluestar. Before he goes, he is warned by his friend, Smudge, that the forest is filled with dangerous wild cats. One night, he decides to explore the nearby forest. Rusty is an ordinary house cat who dreams of living in the wild. It was written by Victoria Holmes and Kate Cary under the pen name of Erin Hunter. Into the Wild is the first book in the Warriors: The Prophecies Begin series.