What is the author's purpose of writing this book?

Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel and began as tales he told his young daughters during long, tedious journeys in the car; they insisted he wrote the stories down, and he completed the first draught eighteen moths later. The title refers to the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire where Adams gre up. His descriptions of rabbit behavior were based on a book by British naturalist Ronald Lockley, "The Private Life Of The Rabbit".

Watership Down was rejected six times before it was accepted by a one-man London publisher, Rex Collings. It was extremely well-received, and was heralded as a suspenseful narrative and as a book that could engage with children and adults at the same time.Many people see it as an allegory for their own struggle.