Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Sword of the Rightful King

For my December book i decided to read Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen

I do not think this this book really had any significance at all besides the fact that it was a good plot. It was a rewrite of the story about king arthur. It is completely different from the story we all know, exept she changes it to make it a completly fake ending.
It had a very good storyline but it didnt teach me anything valuable about life. At first i wanted to read this book
because i heard from a couple people that this book was the best book they have ever read. I really enjoyed this book and recomend it to anyone that doesnt care about learning anything from reading.

Evidence
Its really hard to understand what the evidence is in the book. Through out the book, i kept wondering who the the good and bad guys were. In the original story of King arthur, he was the good guy and the North Witch was the bad guy. In Jane Yolen's book, she makes King Arthur seem like the bad guy and the North Witch the good guy. Sometimes i would get very confused because i never knew who was doing the right thing, and who was trying to make the other person suffer. I am pretty sure the author was trying to make a argument out of it so people would actually have to think about it.

Perspective
This book is set in the middle ages when there was knights, kings, queens, and in some storys dragons. From my perspective i would say that this book is TRYING to teach you about loyalty but it doesnt really work considering it is all fake and none of that probably will never happen.

Connection
I did not get effected by this book what so ever. I also had no connection to it considering that the whole this is fake. I am almost positive i am not going to become a king in my lifetime by pulling a sword out of a stone. I am already afraid of swords as it is so i dont see how that is possible. My point is. its a great book. but its fake and i cant relate to it at all.

Supposition
If i could change one thing in this book, i would make it more easy to relate to. the way i would do that would be keeping the real story and not messing it around to confuse people and change the main characters personalitys. Anyways. i really recomend this book if you want to read about something adventurous and entertaining.