The Squire’s Quest Blog
Drew Blocker
Honors World History
Mrs.White
12 October 2014
Characters to know:
Mordred- Main antagonist
Terence- Main protagonist, squire to King Arthur
Arthur- King Arthur, protagonist
Gawain- Knight to King Arthur
Eileen- protagonist
Summary:
The Squire’s Quest is just one book in the series The Squire’s Tales. This part of the series is about a Squire named Terence who is basically King Arthur’s right hand man and the love interest of Lady Eileen. However it has been months since Terence has heard back from his home, where he was before he came to live in King Arthur’s Court. “I’ve never gone more than a week or two without some word from home(4).” Since it had been about six months since Terence had heard from home he began to speculate that something bad had happened. Mordred, is the evil villain in this book, since every book needs one. He was behind the kidnapping of the queen in earlier books, “Sir Lancelot had rescued Queen Guinevere(17).” I think the main theme in this book is be careful who you trust, “There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.” This shows that back in the times of absolute monarchs you could not trust anyone because everyone could be after your power.
Quotes:
“I’ve never gone more than a week or two without some word from home(4).” Since it had been about six months since Terence had heard from home he began to speculate that something bad had happened. Mordred, is the evil villain in this book, since every book needs one.
He was behind the kidnapping of the queen in earlier books, “Sir Lancelot had rescued Queen Guinevere(17).” This may not be the Holy Crusades but it was a crusade to fight for Arthur and find his queen.
“There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.” This shows that back in the times of absolute monarchs you could not trust anyone because everyone could be after your power.
Author and Sources:
Gerald Morris is known for his addictive series of stories for readers based in the Middle Ages during the time of King Arthur. Called "The Squire's Tales", the series includes The Squire's Tale, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady, The Savage Damsel and The Dwarf, and Parsifal's Page. The books at the start of the series focus on Gawain, but primarily on Terence, his squire. Morris is highly qualified to write books like this considering the vast amount of research that has to be done to construct them.
Critique:
I think this book was very well written and it provides great information into the court of King Arthur and the many enemies that he had to face. Although we haven’t talked much about King Arthur in class I was given some great facts about him and his reign and also the way the world was during his time and how the people were. This book seems like it could have been spot on with the lives of the people in King Arthur’s Court.
I think I would be interested to read this book. King Arthur was a legendary leader who according to folklore held England against the invasion of Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. Although the tale of Arthur has been told for decades, some historians argue whether or not King Arthur was actually real. A book about Arthur and the knights of his court seems like it would be a good read.
ReplyDeleteHey Drew, this book seems very fascinating to me. Our books happened to be in the same series, and the same characters were mentioned in my book. It gives great information about the rule of King Arthur and about the peculiar times of the Middle Ages.
ReplyDeleteHello Drew, I have to agree with both Joe and also Dalton with the information and about King Arthur. He seems like a very interesting guy to know more about and understand how he truly was as a king. This book to me seems like a good book to read and know more about King Arthur.
ReplyDeleteHey Drew, I have also read this book. The Squires Quest is a very interesting book, it is very informational about King Arthur and his role as king, and is also very informational about the middle ages as well. The topics in this book are very interesting and make me want to learn more about them.
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