The Candle In The Wind

Chapters 1-3

Agravaine and Mordred talk and there is a description of the birds and the fields. Mordred is mad at Arthur because he kept him secret and left Morgause to raise him; Agravaine is mad at Lancelot. They think of different plans to get ride of Lancelot and the King but everyone loves Arthur so much that they realize it wont work. The only hope they have is by getting involved with Lancelot and Guenever's affair. The Orkney brothers get together and Mordred tells them about his plan to confront the king about Lancelot and Guenever Gawaine does not like this idea so chaos happens. Then King Arthur enters and kisses Mordred. The third chapter describes different things about the middle ages. It talks about the buildings, different people, how love worked, the good changes Arthur brought to the middle ages because of chivalry. Then it talks about how knights and clerks would look different and what ways you could tell who person was based on the way they looked.

Chapters 4-6

Guenever and Lancelot are sitting together singing. After Lancelot tells Guenever he would like her to run off with him so everything can be out in the open. Guenever says no because she made a promise to the king and little do they know the king is there. He then asks to be announced and he sits down with them to talk. He tells them that he had a son with his half-sister Morgause which he didn't no was his sister at the time. He was ashamed so he had Mordred and other babies sent away on a ship but Mordred came back. He tells Guenever and Lancelot to be careful because if someone proves they are doing wrong he will be forced to kill them . Agravaine and Mordred confront he king about his wife having an affair. They want to prove the queen is guilty of treason and the king agrees to let them, but if they are wrong they will die. The king is going to go on a hunting trip and this is when they plan to catch the queen and Lancelot. The king tells them he hope that Lancelot kills them before they can prove anything. Gareth goes to Lancelot's room to warn him about what his brothers want to do. He tells him they will try to trap him so he shall not go to see the queen, but Lancelot says he is not afraid and it doesn't bother him.

Chapters 7-9

The queen sends for Lancelot and he forgets his sword. He is braiding the queens hair and Lancelot is talking about getting the warning. Jenny tells him to leave because she has a bad feeling but it is too late. They are shouting from the other side of the door and he has no armor. He kills one knight which was Agravaine. He and the queen switch rings and he opens the door. Mordred thinks about feeling bad for the queen because she is going to be burned to death. The king tells them the only reason Mordred survived is because the king asked Lancelot not to kill his son. They expect Lancelot to come back for the queen so they go on guard to wait for him. Lancelot comes back and saves the queen. Mordred tells them Gareth and Gaheris were killed even though they were Un-armed. Lancelot's castle gets described and he tells the queen he feels bad about killing Gareth and that he wouldn't put his armor on to fight him so he killed him. Lancelot wants to apply to the pope so that if either side doesn't stop the war on a term they will get excommunicated.

Chapters 10-12

There is a session where Guenever is forgiven and is sent back to Arthur. Lancelot gets banished and goes to France. The Orkney brothers blame Lancelot for their brothers deaths and want revenge. There is nothing to do in the castle and Guenever reads a letter to Agnes about the fight. She talks about Gawaine fighting Lancelot but he spares his life. The queen thinks that Mordred might be listening by the door so Agnes checks and he is. He comes in and tells the queen that he is thinking about proclaiming himself king because everyone is off in France fighting so he will say Arthur and Lancelot are both dead. He thinks that because of what his mother and king Arthur did it is only fair to marry the queen and rule England. The king tries to get Gawaine to forgive Lancelot so the fighting can stop. king Arthur receives a letter from Guenever explaining she ran away to the tower of London and Mordred is going to take over and marry her. The king does not like this at all.

chapters 13 & 14

Gawaine sends a letter to Lancelot explaining what has happening in England and tells him that his wound is so bad and he dies. Lancelot wants to help save the queen and help Arthur defeat Mordred. Arthur reflects back on his ruling and all the things he tried to make work, but how they always failed. He feels bad because chivalry and what he wanted and stood for was almost impossible. There were so many feuds and grudges from ancestors that nobody can forgive and forget and it causes so many problems.Arthur calls for a page named Tom. He asks him to take a letter to the bishop then tells him to come back while he tells him a story. He talks about fighting and how he was so happy for the round table but it wasn't all good.He wants he page to live to tell the story. He dreams and thinks about Merlyn and the lessons. He believes that there will sometime be a new round table where life is better and nations get a long.

Reflections

I believe King Arthur didn't have a choice in prosecuting the people he loved he was all about fairness and what is right. He was the role model for what he wanted and if he changed it now all his work would have been for nothing.

I believe the fall of Camelot was due to Arthur and might. He wanted everything to be so nice and have chivalry. I think he took things to fast and tried to make man perfect and fair when life doesn't work that way. Even though Arthur had good intentions they didn't work out the best.

I think after reading the book Arthur is my favorite character because he has to rule all of England and he wants to do what is best. He is the one who reflects the most about all that he has done and all the lessons he learned which is really important. Guenever i felt bad for because she was in love with someone she couldn't be with but it was right of her to go back to the king. Lancelot i didn't like to well because he was the best knight so all he did was fight and kill. He also was to obsessed with the queen and he should of let her deal with her own problems instead of always saving her.

In the end of the book i thought it was neat that Thomas Malory was the page. The ending to me is hopeful because Arthur stays positive and dreams of a day when the world is in peace. The bad thing about that is there will always be grudges from history because people don't always forgive and forget, so it is depressing to know that our world will never all be in peace and get along.

The ILL-Made knight

Chapters 1-4

It starts to talk about the conversation King Arthur had with Lancelot. He said he watched Lancelot play games and would like for him to be apart of his round table of knights who fight for justice not strength. Lancelot has a dream about being tied up and forced to ride a donkey. When he comes to a well he goes to drink it but it sinks away from him. He is described as very ugly and ape looking. Lancelot later becomes King Arthur's best knight. There is a description of the armoury and how there is fighting equipment and barrels for the knights. T. H White compares things in the armoury to today. for example certain pads the knights wear would be like football pads that professionals use. Lancelot was to stay there for three years training and learning how to be a knight. After the first year he could be promoted to pel quintain (fighting against a stake in the ground). Then his last stage he would be allowed to have combat with his brothers or cousins having very strict rules. Knights get compared to divers because of the heavy equipment and having to learn about the force of gravity. Lancelot loves the idea that Arthur has because he wants Arthur to love him and he also wants to be able to make a miracle happen. Uncle Dap is the only one who is taking Lancelot serious. Merlyn goes to speak to Lancelot and tells him he will be the greatest knight and he will get his true love in thirty years. He also asks Lancelot to be part of the 150 knights of the round table. Lancelot decides to go to England and him and his Uncle Dap sale the English channel. Lancelot is sad because he is mad that Gawaine got knighted first and that King Arthur is married making Lancelot jealous. Lancelot sees a black knight and they start to joust. He then finds out it was King Arthur. He gets knighted and meets Queen Guenever. Arthur tells Lancelot that Gawaine killed a women but its not his fault its Morgause's because she never spent time with her kids or raised them right. Then Lancelto learns that Pellinor killed King Lot of Orkney. Arthur gives Lancelot a jerfalcon. In Camelot people went hawking in the fields. Queen Guenever is suppose to be kind to Lancelot and she takes to him very well.

Chapter 5-8

Guenever and Sir Lancelot start to fall in love. Arthur had heard about this so he takes Lancelot to the Roman war with him so he is separated from the queen. The battle goes on and Sir Lancelot and King Arthur kill a lot of enemies and perform great battles. They realize that the queen shall not come between them. The king and queen kiss while Lancelot is there and he believes that she would come between them so he asks to leave. Sir Lancelot asks the king if he can go on a quest. Sir Carados and Sir Tarquine were two Celts who believed in having ruling by force and no system of government. Sir Lancelot sees a knight on a horse. He notices it is Sir Carados and he has taken Gawine prisoner. Lancelot challenges the knight to a battle and the winner gets Gawine. Lancelot beats Sir Carados by having him thrown under his horse's feet and struck off his head. Lancelot goes to sleep with his cousin Sir Lionel. Lionel gets taken prisoner to Sir Tarquine's castle. Morgan Le Fay comes along and puts a spell on Lancelot so that he sleeps for 6 more hours giving them time to bring him to there place and make him choose one of them to like. He awakes and a women tells him she will help him in the morning. Then Morgan Le Fay comes in with her three sisters and tells him to pick one of them but he refuses. The damsel comes back and wants Lancelot to fight for her father, King Bagdemagus in a tournament. He agrees to if she will let him free. While he is sleeping a man sits on him and they don't know each other so they get into a fight. Lancelot does good at the tournament and then he wants to find his cousin. He finds a maiden and asks if she knows where his cousin might be. She tells him she will lead him to Sir Tarquine's castle. They both fight it out till death because Tarquine wont yield to Lancelot for killing his brother. Sir Lancelot wins the battle. The women he did the favor for told him he should get a mistress. Lancelot doesn't want the because he loves the Queen. He comes across a hawk in the trees and a lady asks him to help her get it down. He climbs up the tree and fins out it was a trick and the ladies husband wants to kill Sir Lancelot. Lancelot jumps out of the tree and kills the man. Lancelot sees a guy chasing a women trying to kill her. He goes to stop the whole thing and the knight kills his wife. Lancelot goes to kill the knight but he yields so Lancelot because of chivalry he must take him as a prisoner. Lancelot make all the captives kneel to Queen Guenever.

Chapters 9-12

Queen Guenever is surprised by all the knights saying they will serve her and they were captured by Sir Lancelot. Arthur thinks that Lancelot did this for him when really it was for the Queen. Then Sir Lancelot starts to ask about Orkneys and might for right. Arthur explains that everything is going wrong. Morgause is falling in love with any man because Lot is dead, people are making everything out to be a competition instead of fairness, and everything is crashing down. Arthur wishes he never made any of this happen. Lancelot talks to his uncle Dap because he is in love with Guenever but he is christian so he knows he can not do anyhting with her. Lancelot has low self esteem and his uncle thinks he should just go talk to the queen and see what she would like to do. Lancelot goes on another quest to King Pelles haunted castle. There is a village where the people ask Sir Lancelot to save a girl from boiling water because only the best knight can do it. He walks in and gives the girl his hand and the curse is undone and the girl is free. king Pelles thanks Lancelot for saving his daughter and asks him to stay; Lancelot starts to drink a lot of wine and talks with the butler. He gets tricked into thinking that queen Guenever is near . He wakes up in the morning to Elaine and now his virginity is gone to a women who tricked him. He is so mad that he wants to leave and never see her again.

chapters 13-16

There is a part about having the seventh sense of knowledge and how middle aged people seem to know it and the young don't. Lancelots father is about to be attacked and king Arthur asks him to stay to watch over Guenever. They talk about each other's life and fight. He tells the queen that he had dreams but he would give them all up for her and that he is acting selfish but he loves her. King Arthur returns after winning the battle and soon everyone hears Elaine gave birth to a son, named Galaha, which was Lancelot's name. The queen gets so upset at Lancelot and doesn't believe his story about getting drunk and tricked. After the queen cries and soon they both start to kiss. Elaine wants to go on an expedition to take Lancelot from the queen because she loves him even though Lancelot doesn't love her. It talks about Guenever not really sensing what is happening to well and that she may be jealous of Lancelot and Elaine's bay. The king knew about his wife and Lancelot but he did not want to think about it so he hoped it wasn't happening. If he were to ask his wife he knew she would say yes because she can not lie. Jenny Quenever the queen, talks to Sir Lancelot about the baby coming and tells him maybe he should marry her because the two of them could never get married. Then she tells him not to make love to her until after Elaine is gone because he might find a way to love and marry her.

chapters 17-20

Elaine arrives to Camelot, where she is greeted by the queen. The queen tells Lancelot that he is not to make love to Elaine or be in the room with her at night or everything between the two is over. Sir Lancelot finally goes to see his son and he is gratefully and puts his finger in the babies hand, then Elaine throws herself at him and Lancelot leaves the room. The queen has Elaine and Lancelot go to her room the next morning because when the queen sent for him he was not there. She called him a traitor and wouldn't believe Elaine tricked him. Lancelot gets mad and jumps out the window. The queen tells Elaine that she loved Sir Lancelot and Elaine asks the queen why she had to ruin things when she already has a husband. It is two years later and King Pelles and Sir Bliant are talking about Lancelot and his death. King Pelles said that Lancelot ran and ran until he got gored by a boar last Christmas. Sir Bliant tells a story of how a mad man showed up one day with a sword. He went to fight as self defense but the man hit him first, ran up to where his wife was sleeping, took all the blankets and wrapped up, then went to bed. After the handcuffed him and kept him for a year and a half making him stronger and healthier. One day two knights come for Sir Bliant and they starts hitting him, the mad man sees this and breaks off his chains. He runs out and saves Sir Bliant. After several months boar hounds come and leave a horse and spear so the mad grabs them and rides off. A knight witnessed the boar give Sir Lancelot a wound that was unrecoverable. A mad man runs through the village where King pelles lives and goes for the castle. He is wounded and hurt so they take him in. He will not say if her is Sir Lancelot so they keep him locked up in a pigeon house and after a while they let him go free.

Chapter 21-24

A man shows up and sleeps near the well. Elaine goes out to see this man and recognizes him as Sir Lancelot. They go to take care of him and he awakens three times. The third time he awakes he asks how he got there. Elaine tells him he was a mad man and he asks if many people saw him like this and he admits he has been acting like a fool. He tells Elaine he can not marry her because he does not love her but he will stay with her if it makes her happy. They move in with Sir Bliant but nobody else knows he is Sir Lancelot because they don't want people to want him back at the court. Elaine wants him to have tournaments and hawking like he use to and his shield may be called "the chevalier mal fet", which stands for the ill-starred knight (the knight with a curse on him). Sir Castor approaches the Ill-Made Knight and asks if he is really Sir Lancelot and swears he wont tell anyone. A tournament goes on and Lancelot beats everyone. Then a knight shows up and wants to fight the Ill-Made Knight. After the battle he admits he is Sir Lancelot. Then finds out that his brother Ector is one of the knights and that the queen sent people to look for him. They ask him to come back but Lancelot has good morels and says that she loves him and is kind and he can not betray her. Then he says he loves Elaine. Uncle Dap comes and Elaine realizes that Sir Lancelot is going to leave so he promises he will come back to her and puts on his old armour and leaves.

Chapters 25-28

Lancelot has been away for 15 years everyone has stayed the same but older. More water has flown into Camelot and things like the meseals take place. The year 1000 is excpected to be the end of the world and there is much chaos. It then talks about how bread plates went to better plates, people ate with clean and not bloody hands, wine was being served, and many changes were happening. Gareth comes to king Arthur's court and runs away from his mother Morgause. Mordred her last son goes to Arthur's court like his brother. Morgause hates Arthur and all her sons are in his court. Since Pellinore killed Lot Gawine's father Gawaine killed King Pellinore. Arthur made the Round table to stop Anarchy but he realizes he made rights by force not rights by rights. Gareth tells the king that Agravaine killed there mother because she was sleeping with King Pellinore's son Lamorak. Then he said all three of his brother surrounded Lamorak and killed him too. Mordred and Gawaine knelled to the king but he told them to go and he would meet with them later. Arthur tells Lancelot thinking is a curse and that Merlyn thought the round table was a good idea so they need to take a next step. He explains hes wants right not might but he made the table using right by might. He explains to the Queen and Lancelot that there is nothing left for the knights to fight for so they go off killing people. Then he says that there is no world left for the knights to use up there might so he wants to make them match against the spirit. He wants the might of knights to be for god and not for people. They think a crusade might take peoples mind of might for people and make them do it for spirits. Then King Pelles wants Arthur to knight his own son in Abbey. Lancelot was away two years and there hunt for holy grail didn't turn out well. They didn't find it and half the knights were missing and assumed dead. Gawaine tells Arthur that Galahad is making people kneel before him and knighting people at the age of 18. He met a priest who told him that he was wrong for man slaughtering.

Chapters 29-32

Sir Lionel returns to the castle mad at her brother Bors because of all his morals. His brother has trials, the first being saving a lady but not killing the man he saved her from. Next was about Lionel and he had to choose to save him or a maiden. His brother chose the maiden which made Lionel mad so he tried to kill his brother. The third trial was his brother was suppose to sleep with a lady and if he didn't she would die. Bors did not want to sin and sleep with her so the lady and her friends jumped off the highest part of the castle. The fourth trial was when Lionel went to the chapel to kill his brother. A hermit covered his brothers body to protect him and Lionel killed the hermit. Then he killed another person and went back for his brother. He says Bors prayed and god cam between them burned the shields and they started laughing and made up. Sir Aglovale returns. He is the son of king pellinore and he wants revenge on the Orkneys for killing his dad. He informs the king his mother has died and the king says sorry and that he doesn't think killing the Orkneys is a good idea because it will create a big feud. He tells a story about his brother and goign into a magical boat with Bors. Then Galahad and Aglovale's sister get on a boat with them. She was on a boat with spindles. Then they left and came across an old man who wanted to die in Galahad's hands. They reached Carlisle and a women with measles needed to be save and only by making his sister bleed that could work. So she agreed but died. Lancelot is missing and there are so many rumors about his death. Lancelot returns but wants to go to bed. Uncle Dap told the king that the holy grail was found and they arrives in Babylon. Bors was to return but Galahad and Percivale were never to return back. He goes to eat with the kind and queen still in love with Guenever. He asks them if they would like to hear about the holy grail. Lancelot explains to them that he didn't understand much till being on the boat with silence and god. He said that his son gave him a hit while fighting and he saw a women who said " god be with thee, best knight of the world" and she was speaking to his son. He tells about how he couldnt get int the chappel doors so he went to sleep and a knight took away all his armour but he could not wake up. He said he had another dream that he jousted with that knight and got his armour back. Then he saw fighitng between black and white knights he joined the black because it looked weaker but got taken prisoner and beaten. He went to the river where he had gotten knocked down by the knight and realized that he should put all his victory and fighting aside and got in the water and thanked god for his adventure.

Chapters 33-36

Lancelot tells them about entering a ship that had a dead women in it and a letter in her hand. Then his son came and he kisses his son's sword and asked for his blessing. They road in the boat together for a long time and a white knight came for Galahad. So Lancelot kissed his son and asked him to pray for him. The boat to him to a castle where there were two lions. He drew his sword but then a hand touched him and he realized that he had to believe in god and the lions never hurt him. He sees a chapel with the knights inside and the grail but he isn't allowed to go in. There is a description of the tub while the queen takes a bath and the personality of the queen is described as "real". She did good things and bad, but she was childless. She became unpopular, thought to kill a knight, and was not religious. Lancelot tries to explain to her that they can't go back to the old ways because of the grail and god. He offers to convert Gunever to try and make things better. There relationship got worse and one day the queen asked him to leave for a month or two while they stay friends. He says that if she would like they can start everything over when he gets back. The queen wants to be a host and knows that Gawaine loves fruit so she has apples there. A relative of sir Pellinor. Sir Pine poisons the apples. Patrick a knight ate the apple that was intended for Gawaine. They accused the queen and unless she finds a knight to fight for her she will die. Lancelot isn't there because she sent him on a quest so nobody is fighting for her.

Chapters 37-40

Sir Bors offers to fight if they can't find Sir Lancelot. He has a hard time picking between god or Guenever but he goes under disguise to fight Sir Mardor. He knocks him down twice and Sir Mardon gives in and Lancelot spares his life as long as the queen isn't written about on Patricks grave. The king asks him to take off his helm so they can see who it is and they find out it is Sir Lancelot and they are happy. He knows he cannot love the queen because it is not right but she still wants him. There is a tournament but the queen doesn't want Lancelot to go because he will be with Elaine and Guenever doesn't want that. Then she changes her mind and tells him to go. He promises her he will come back but when he gets to Crobin Elaine meets him and tells him he will be staying with her for good now. He wears a token from Elaine during his fight and he gets an aarow in the rib. Elaine nurses him back to health. The queen gets mad because she hears about Lancelot wearing the token and thinks Lancelot is a traitor. Elaine thinks they can be together forever but Sir Lancelot wants to talk to her. When he returns the Queen calls hima liar and says that he made everything up. Then Elaine kills herself and floats down the river in barge. The queen got mad at Lancelot for not making her happy and showing her kindness.

chapters 41-45

Lancelot gets shot in the butt wiht an aarow by a lady on accident. Lancelot takes place in a tournament while him and the king were not getting along. Lacnelot took care of all the Orkneys accept Gareth. The queen goes out with her knights Lancelot being left out on purpose. Sir Meliagrance knows that the queens knights are unarmed and that Lancelot isn't with them. They attack woudning all of the queens knights and taking her as a priosner. She agrees as long as thye take care of the woudned knights. Secretly she slips her ring and a note to give to Lancelot. Lancelot goes to save her but Sir Meliagrance sets an ambush. That doesn't stop Lancelot and Sir Meliagrance gives in and lets the queen go. Lancelot cuts his hand gettign into the queens room and in the morning Sir Meliagrance notices it and knows someone slept with the queen. Lancelot says he will fight a battle about this matter and Sir Meliagrance says ok but until the battle lets be friends. He gives Lancelot a tour of the castle and Lancelot falls into a trap which leads him to the dungeon. Then Sir Meliagrance tells the queen that Lancelot rode ahead. The next mornign they go to fight eachother but Sir Meliagrance gives in. Lancelot says he will take all his armour off his left side, use no shield, and tie his left hand behind his back so they agree. Lancelot wins having Meliagrance dragged out of the fiels behind a horse. There is a description of the indian summer and the workers. Sir Urre needed to find the best knight so a feast took place at Carlisle. He thinks about all the things he ahs done and how he is a bad person. Lancelot does not want to prove he can do this he proves over and over he is the greatest kinght. The king commands him to help so he does. After everyone starts to cheer but Lancelot sits there crying.

Thoughts/Reflection

The first four chapters had to do a lot with Lancelot and him becomming a knight, then through the whole book he is liek the most important character adn everyoen depends on him. I think it would be hard to be him having everyone knowing how good you are suppose to be and having to live up to high expectations. I couldn't believe that Guenever and Lancelot fell on love. When Lancelot brought back all the knights for the Queen i don;t know why the king thought they might be for him or maybe he was just hoping. I don't like Elaine because she used and tricked Lancelot when he wanted to be loyal and stay a virgin. If i was Guenever I would have been wicked mad at Lancelot to ebcause she was in love with him and now he is having a baby with someone else. It isn't all his fault but he was the one who drank a lot, I was so susprised when Lancelot ran off and know saw him for two years. Then they start talking about a mad man and i could enver picture Lancelot being like that. I love the chapters where Arthur tells Lancelot that the round table was a bad idea because he used might to make it. It shows he can realize when he does stuff wrong and that he will do a lot of things to fix it. I thing goign on a quest was a good idea to look for the holy grail. I feel bad because Lancelot did not make it but he realizes why during his dreams. I think his dreams were srong and very helpful for him to figure out what he has done wrong. I think by Elaine killing herself was her only option unless she wants to be lonely, because her son is gone and never comming back and Lancelot doesn't love her. I think Lancelot was crying after he helped out because he doesn't wnat to be the hero who does everything , who fihgts and kills, he just wants to be a good person and realize the real miracles he always wanted to make happen.

The Queen Of Air And Darkness

Chapters 1&2

In the beginning there is interesting detail of a place that has four children in it. We get introduced to the four kids: Gawaine, Gareth, Gaheris, and Agravaine. Gawaine tells a story of how their grandmother was taken by the king of England named King Pendragon. Morgause is the mother of the four boys and she wants to become invisible so she boils a black cat then starts to go through the bones. She tries and gets bored so she chucks the bones out. So we find out Morgause and her 3 sisters are witches. Arthur talks about how he thought killing and his battle was fun. This makes Merlyn mad because before in his lessons he said something along the lines of killing for fun or and interest is wrong. He gets upset and tells Arthur how King Pendragon made chivalry so much different' and makes Arthur think.

Chapters 3&4

Arthur gets history about Morgause and the difference between Galls and Gaels. Merlyn tells him there are different reasons for war and not just on in particular. He learns about past races and the differences that they all have. He learns about why certain races like or don't like his race. Merlyn tells Arthur war is the worst thing and there is no reason to go to war. Merlyn thinks aggression has a lot of reason for violence and is trying to explain this to Arthur. Merlyn then explains that the poor helpless people are the ones who will die and pay during a war and people need to take it more seriously.

Chapters 5&6

Morgause's for sons go to here a story at Mother Morlans. There they meet St. Toirdealbhach. They talk about war and the St. kick them out. The boys decide to take two donkeys they see and whip and beat them. Sir Grummore, King Pellinore, and Sir Palomides are the three knights who enter. The Orkeny people do nothing but stared at them. King Arthur walks up 208 stairs to get Merlyn and he didn't summon for him so Merlyn makes him leave. King Arthur wants to learn more about chivalry. Arthur thinks that by winning two battles he can change how chivalry and make life better.

Chapters 7&8

King Pellinore fell in love with the Queen of Flanders. The boys talk about their mother being virgin bate when she asked the knights to hunt a unicorn. They go to the saint again to hear a story about a witch who had a daughter and her husband left her. The boys decide to try to find a unicorn for their mom. They use meg a maiden and once the unicorn gets close to meg then Agravaine kills the unicorn. The boys didn't have that planned so they try to figure out what to do with the unicorn. They bring it to their mom and she doesn't believe them. After their mom finds out she beats them. There are tents that are described for the knights to stay in. King Arthur wants to fit 150 knights around a table and Merlyn tries to figure out how. Arthur wants to make a round table and is told by Merlyn, that he will marry Guenever. They want to have a feast and then Kay tells Merlyn that he had a good idea of why a war should start.

Chapters 9&10

King Pellinoe is sad because the questing beast is in Flanaders. So Palomides and Grummore think it would be nice to dress up as the questing beast. The Queen is fed up with the knights. King Lot has way more men then King Arthur and Merlyn. Arthur gets worried and Merlyn says they will win. Merlyn asks Arthur if he remembers the magic and what he was taught when he was little. He then wants to say something important to Arthur but cannot remember so he wants to take a break. Merlyn tells him Once and Future king shall be written on his tombstone in case he forgot.

Chapters 11&12

The friends of Pellinore would like to kill the beast, but Pellinore refuses to let them he wants them to let her be because she is in love. The beast bit Pellinore because she wanted to chase after her love. They become safe behind the castle walls. The knights get accepted. Pellinore and the Queen of Flanders want to get married. Also the Saint and mother Morlan want to get married. The battle is soon to happen and Arthur is serious about it. He realizes he is out numbered and decides maybe attacking at night is the best possible way. Lot knows his army is bigger and trys to plan on only making half of them fight . Arthur had two french kings to watch Lot from the bushes and they helped him win the battle.

Chapters 13&14

Merlyn can't remember more things and he insists he must leave. Sir Palomides and Sir Grummore don't know what to do about the questing beast because she wont leave the castle. They ask Merlyn for advice and he basicly says talk ot her and try to make her understand. They psychoanalyze the beast and she now loves Sir Palomides. The wedding happens and Arthur and Morgause with her four sons go as do a lot of other people. Merlyn tells Arthur the name of his mother. Then brings a Spancel to make Arthur love her. It works and they are half brother and sister, who end up having a son named Mordred.

Reflection

I think that Morgause has four sons who are all unique and have a strength and a weakness they share as a group of brothers. What I think is interesting is that the way Merlyn thinks of war because most people don't think about it so serious and how little stupid reasons make people fight and kill. I thought it was nice of Pellinore not to let his friends kill the poor questing beast and that it was interesting she moved on to Sir Palomides. I think that the spancel was very good idea for Morgause to get what she wants and i believe a lot of people would do the same thing.

The Once And Future King

Chatpers 1&2

Characters that are introduced are: Sir Ector, his son Kay, "Wart", and the king in the woods. Sir Ector in these chapters wants to look for a tutor for the boys. Then we learn that Kay doesn't get beaten or punished because of his status and Wart does. The two boys go hawking and the hawk flies into a tree. Kay gets mad and leaves while Wart stays true and tries to get the hawk back. While trying to get the hawk he follows it into the woods where he gets lost and meets King Pellinore.
Traits: Kay seems like the person who is stuck up and likes to show that he is better then wart and make him feel useless. Wart is a follower and he cares about other people and wants to do the right thing. Pellinore is worried about finding the beast and he uses a dog so he seems dedicated but a little out of his mind to me.

Chapters 3&4

Merlyn is the newest character introduced and his owl Archimedes. Wart falls asleep in the woods and when he wakes up he is hungry. He looks for food and finds a cottage with an older man living in it. He finds out that this man is Merlyn a magician. Merlyn invites him in for breakfast and shows him all of the things he has ( mice, worms, horns, tail) that a magician would. Then they eat and Wart talks to Archimedes the owl . Merlyn tells Wart that he will be his tutor and the set back for Sir Ector's castle. They get there and bring back Hod's Hawk and share the news that Merlyn the magician will tutor them. Sir Ector makes Merlyn prove himself so Merlyn makes it snow, shows testimonials, and makes a mulberry tree grow. Sir Ector decides Merlyn is good enough to be the boys tutor.

Chapters 5&6

The chapter starts by describing the castles defense system, ( having holes to pour hot liquid, where the people go when invaded, how the church always got destroyed) then it talked about having a boy to take care of the hounds in the castle and he would ( feed,clean, nurse, play) do everything to take care of all of them. Then Wart complains it is hot out and wishes he was a fish so Merlyn makes it happen and they both become fish. Merlyn shows him being a fish isn't east and take him to see the king of the moat fish. He is obsessed with power and talks about how having the biggest body and a strong mind will get u lots of power. Thus showing Wart that having to much power isn't a good thing and it ruins people. After this Merlyn falls asleep near a tree well the boys are practicing archery. They decide to go off and hunt for rabbits. Kay get the first rabbit they have ever killed. They release and arrow in the air and then a gore-crow takes off with the arrow and Kay tells Wart it was a witch.

Chapters 7&8

It is all about violence and how Wart wants to become a knight. Merlyn gets mad because he thinks that fighting messes up learning and that people who can fight consider themselves educated when they are not. Wart wants to see a real joust so King Pellinore and Sir Grummore fight. Neither of them win and they both end up hitting a tree. Merlyn tells Wart when they wake up they will be best of friends. So Wart learns that fighting doesn't solve anything and it doesn't really have a point. I also noticed and liked how the authors shows us examples from today so we understand what it was like back then. He uses that the horse would have to be able to hold heavy weight because of all the armor and he compares them to modern work horses today. Then he is bored on a rainy day so he goes to Merlyn and asks to be a hawk. Merlyn tells him that he is not ready to be a hawk then agrees to make him a merlin and let him go visit the birds for a night. There he is asked questions that he must think and try to guess the right answer. He gets about 90% right and must face a challenge of standing next to Cully for three rings before Cully eats him. He escapes safely and learns that even in a tough situation if you think hard and put your mind to it you can get out of that situation.

Chapters 9&10

Kay and Wart get into a fight because Kay is mad and jealous that Merlyn does stuff for Wart and not himself. Wart confronts Merlyn about the situation and Merlyn says that he can only do magic for Him and not Kay unless he uses his own magic. They go into the woods on an adventure where they meet Little John. He brings them to Robin Wood, who would like the boys to help him find Wat, the dog boy, and Tuck. He tells them they were captured by a fairy and they are in Morgan Le Faye's castle.

Chapters 11&12

Robin Wood and Marian explain to the boys that they are the only ones who can do the job and lead them towards the castle. They give them swords that are made from iron because Morgan Fay hates iron. They are told never let go of the sword and never eat anything while they are in the castle. The Queen frees the people and Wart breaks his collar bone. Kay shoots the griffin in the head and kills him. They all say goodbye and head there own ways. When the boys get back to Sir Ector's castle he is proud of them. Wart brought Wat along in hopes Merlyn could fix him. Merlyn does his best and Wat and the Dog Boy become good friends.

Chapters 13&14

Wart wants to get turned into an ant so Merlyn lets him. He realizes that ants don't do much besides work and they only speak done and not done. So he doesn't like being an ant. He learns that letting everyone else say what happens is wrong and everyone should think individually most of the time. Sir Ector receives a letter stating that a man named William Twyti and his hunting dogs are going to be hunting in Sir Ectors forest. Sir Ector is responsible for the cost, cleaning and salting what William catches, and letting him stay in his castle. He isn't happy about this and thinks of bad things that could happen like the beast in the woods eating William.

Chapters 15&16

It is winter time and there is a description of the snow being 3 inches and that winter lasts two months. Sir Ector holds a feast for the holidays and invites everyone. There people sing and make speeches and toasts. William Twyti goes hunting in the woods with King Pellinore and other people. King Pellinore finds the beast very ill and its so upset. He wants to bring him back to Sir Ector's castle and make his health better so he can hunt him.

Comments : what is up with tally - ho? I mean what would it be for words today?

Chapter 17&18

Archimedes, Merlyn, and Wart all talk about birds and their language because Wart wants to fly and be a bird again. Wart learns birds have laws about marriage and everything. Archimedes takes Wart out to fly after Wart eats a mouse and turns into an owl. He learns how to fly then Archimedes takes him over to see geese. He talks about death and the geese don't like it, Then a goose talks to him about the fact that they fly and have no boundaries. She basically says there is no point in fighting, that they share and humans think fighting is fun and cool when its not.

Chapter 19&20

Wart's friend lyo lyok the girl goose, teaches him about rules of food and all about what they are like. Then he flys wiht them and they all sing songs. They end up crossing the North Sea. Then Kay tells Wart he was snoring and making a honking noise when he wakes up. I think Wart realizes that geese stick together and when they want to do something they try there hardest and don't back down. Six years pass and Wart has been changed into many different things.

Chapter 21&22

Sir Ector thinks that Wart sulks because Kay is going to become a knight. Wart gets turned into a badger and meets a hedge hog. He calls him Urchin and realizes they both know Merlyn. Before he knew that the hog knew Merlyn he was thinking about eating him. He is sent to see Mr. Badger. The badger talks about embryos and his theory on how people were made through his essay. Then he says that man is the top of the animal class and they kill there own people. he thinks it's horrible and that man isn't that great and that other species are better. At the end he asks Wart if he liked the geese or the ants best because they are to very opposite creatures; one good, smart, and likes peace, the other is all about war,fighting, and not thinking beyond done and not done. The king gets killed. Sir Ector and King Pellinore think about the sword and the stone to decide who is the next king. Then the person who pulls it out is the only right person for England. Kay wants a chance at the sword and he talks to it with is father and sir Grummore. Merlyn leaves and this really upsets Wart. They try to get him to stay but he goes back to the forest.

Chapter 23&24

Kay goes to fight but doesn't have his sword so Wart goes to get it. He sees the sword in Anvil and goes for it, not knowing what it was he just thinks its a quick way to get Kay a sword. As he goes to pull it out he (gets advice) or it seems like he does telling him about how to get the sword. He receives the sword and gives it to Kay. Kay knows it isn't his sword and asks Wart about it. Then Sir Ector hears abotu it and goes back to the churc. Kay told him that he got the sword but then says no Wart really got it. They don't believe him so he puts the sword back in the stone and pulls it out for the second time. Then they realize this is their new king and honor him. Wart breaks down crying. The coronation occurs and Wart receives a lot of presents. Merlyn comes back and explains to Wart that he knew all along about him becoming king and that he carried him to Sir Ector when he was a baby. Wart is now known as King Arthur.

Vocab: belligerent

Clementius

Comments/thoughts

I believe my favorite character is Merlyn. I like him because he seems wise and he helps Arthur as much as he can. I think it was interesting that Merlyn was able to teach him so much by (Wart) Arthur being transformed into other animals. Kay is uptight and likes to rub how special he is in peoples face. I don't like him very much. Arthur is smart but still has some learning to do and now he has to take on ruling as a king. I feel bad for him but I believe he wild o a good job. My favorite lesson or transformation was when he turned into a goose. He learned valuable information and it showed that some species are so kind and gentle then there are species like us humans who are violent, greedy, and mean. I think Arthur cries when he gets the sword because all he wanted to do was get Kay a sword because he admired him and the knights. All of a sudden he is in charge of being king when he has always been nothing so he isn't prepared for it. I don't blame him because it is such a responsibility that he didn't ask for. To me this book so far is really interesting and keeps me reading !! I can't wait to read more.

Le Morte d'Arthur

pages 575-585

Vocabulary- there were no words that i didn't really understand i just thought it was neat how they gave a definition for legend, epic, medieval romance , and chivalry.

Summary - Merlin gives Arthur to foster parents to keep hid identity hidden until it is his time be king. Then Merlin dies and Britain is fought for by Barons. Then there is a competition to see who can pull the sword out of the stone and the one person who does is the only one to be king. Arthur pulls out the sword and everyone kneels to him and asks for his forgiveness and are happy for him to be their king.

Thoughts- I think that Arthur will be a king who always tries to make the best decision for Britain and always look out for everyone. I think he will do everything in his power to make all the people of Britain happy.

Pages 587-598

Vocabulary- lecherous was a word i didn't know. I figured out it has to do with lust.

Summary- Sir launcelot wants too look for adventure and falls asleep under a tree. Sir Ector end up at Tarquine's castle, where he is beaten. Then Sir Launcelot helps Bagdemagus by fighting for him. Launcelot frees the prisoners in Tarquine's castle and tells them to take what they want because he killed Tarquine. Launcelot defeats two giants in king Arthur's court and he became the most famous Knight.

Thoughts- I think that the code of chivalry is good and since it states they act if it is for a women, Launcelot helps her by killing the guy that rapes her and to me that's not ideal because even though it is a nice thing to do I believe lots of people would stick up for someone being raped not just perfectionists.

Characters-

Sir Launcelot seems like an epic hero character he is strong and he looks for adventure, helps people solve their problems.

Tarquine he reminded me of Sir Launcelot because he was good at fighting. I didn't like how he kept prisoners and treated him bad and he deserved to die.

Pages 599-604

Vocabulary- I didn't know the words assail and vouchsafed. I looked them up and found out they meant to assault and to give or grant.

Summary- Sir Modred sent a fake letter saying King Arthur was dead and then asked the queen to marry him. Arthur got word of this and he wanted to get revenge. Sir Gawin sends a letter to Sir launcelot asking him to take armies and fight against Sir Modred. King Arthur and Sir Modred fought in a battle with no more then 14 men and Sir Modred's sword went through Arthur's helmet and killed him. Sir Bedivere was to take the sword and throw it in the water. He saw a hand grab the sword wave it three times and disappear.

Connections- King Arthur talks about how Sir Gawain warned him he would die and i connected that to the Iliad when Achilles knew that if he killed hector that he would die soon after.