So it was a cold wet evening, and unfortunately Wart didn´t know how to bear himself indoors. Sir Ector found him and told him to go with Merlyn to be “educated”, and he did. Merlyn has doing his stuff when Wart came and told him to educate him, Merlyn responded that education wasn’t and option when you had nothing to do, it wasn´t when he wanted to be educated. However Wart insisted on having something to do, he wanted to be a hawk, Merlyn said that it was very ambitious and that he should wait for the time in when he would really need to be a hawk. He said “My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, Protista or virus, for all I care –before I have done with you- but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet for you to be a hawk- for one thing Hob is still in the mews feeding them- so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being”. Then he told him it was okay, now it is time, Hob has almost finished for the night, I will turn you into the type of hawk you wish to be (merlin he chose) and I will take you to the mews, you shall just listen to them and not talk, only if asked. 
  I will make a large pause in here. Remember that at the beginning “Introducing Merlyn” blog I told you of him being born in the wrong time ( backwards time, instead of forward time), well in this particular chapter we can clearly see that in a few and common words Merlyn can see the close future, just as one person who stands in the opposite direction of the rest, he can actually see what person in behind the other, while the person in the normal direction can´t see his back (won´t see the person who is back). So we can now reach the conclusion that Merlyn can see “what is coming “.

Continuing to the story, after giving wart the indications he turned him into a Merlin hawk and told him to hop on his arm so he could take him down to the mews to hear the rest of the hawks talk, for as Merlyn said “listening to the experts, is the best way to learn”.

 

Hi every  one , by know after being in some titling lessons with Kay, Wart and merlyn transported again with the goal of seeing two real knights fight (educational). Of course Wart choose King Pellinor when he was asked by Merlyn “Any knight in particular?”.

King Pellinor recognized Wart inmediatly  and Wart presented Merlyn, at first King Pellinor trembled (because Merlyn is a magician) but then Wart told him he was a white magician. Merlyn told them that sir grummore grummursum was on his way to joust with King Pellinor.

So Wart and Merlyn saw a great jousting between to grate knights that at the end became friends, while Merlyn and Wart returned in a blink to Sir Ector´s castle as if they had been there all the time. 

With this said I will answer the following question "Can you state the theme in one sentence and explain why you think that is the theme?Learning how to joust as a knight, that would be the theme I would give because Wart is watching Kay train for jousting and he will learn to do it to, and when Merlyn takes him to see King Pellinor he does so to teach him how real knights joust, even do  he is only watching, by the moment. And everything in this chapter has to do with the art of jousting.

Thats all folks ! see you next week

Hi everyone! This week I am supposed not to write a blog, but I will because I am missing one remember? So I hope you enjoy it.

After meeting the king of the moat Wart continued with his life as usual. One Thursday afternoon the boy where making their archery as usual and they got bored, Merlyn was asleep under a tree; so they decided to go to the Sauvage Forest, carefully of course, to hunt rabbits (they had never hunt anything in their life, so this was a big challenge). Kay was lucky and hunted one, they both celebrated their achievement, so Wart fired his best arrow up into the air as a symbol of victory, they were so happy, when all of a sudden a raven flew by and instead of being killed, took wart´s arrow in his beak and flied away… Kay thought and said “it was a witch “.

Then the narrator tells us that titling and horsemanship were the two most important branches of gentleman’s education those days. Merlyn hated this but that was the way it was. The chapter on these two things describes all the rules of tournaments, and all kind of details that had to do with it.

Know in today’s blog I will be answering the following question “HOW COULD THE WORK BE DIFFERENT IF IT WERE SET IN ANOTHER TIME OR PALCE?” The only thing it is to say about this would be that if the story was developed in another time it would be completely different, for example, Titling and Horseman ship were the most important things that a man had to know in those times, but imagine if this was in our time; of course horseman and titling are things that very few people know and they aren´t important at all; imagine castles!!, now at days castles are unhabituated or are preserved as monuments and museums; and as a last thing to mention imagine this was on a un magical land, I think it would be pretty boring…

 Hope you liked today´s post, see you till next week!

Hi every one!  Today I will be posting on what I´ve read during the week, To be honest what I read this week was very weird and I didn´t understood most of it, so don´t freak out …

After a month seens Merlyn came to Sir Ector´s castle Wart had his first “class” with Merlyn. It was a very hot day, and Wart was wishing to be a fish, so he could swim in the castle´s moat; he didn’t knew why but he felt that Merlyn could hear what he was wishing, suddenly he realized that Merlyn has leading him to the moat. He saw a fisher man with a trident and Merlyn spoke some weird words, and all of a sudden he realized that moat seem bigger and that he had turned into a olive-green fish, and at the time Merlyn now appeared as a tench fish. 
Wart described that being a fish in the moat was almost like flying but with your own body, but it took him a great deal of time to learn how to move his new body in order to swim normally, when he finally achieved it a roach fish approached Merlyn and wart asking for help, because his mother was sick and Merlyn is a physician, they followed the little fish and when Merlyn saw the mother, he cured her with magic spell; afterwards the fishes thank him and Merlyn showed Wart the King of the moat, who was a small translucent shape, They called him Old Jack, and some others called him Black Peter, but for most part they didn´t said his name at all. They call him Mr.P . And he was according to Merlyn Wart would see "what is to be a king". When they approached the king, they had a very strange conversation which I didn´t quite understood, it was something about Wart seeking power, but at the end of the conversation Wart was almost eaten by the king; and suddenly he was in dry land once again standing besides Merlyn.


 

Welcome again to my web site! Today I will tell you what has happened till know and will explain to you how does the setting (Sir Ector´s Castel or “The Castle of the Forest Sauvage”) contribute with the story and how.

As I told you last week Merlyn is now with Wart in Sir Ector´s castle. They have rescued Cully (the hawk) and Sir Ector gave Merlyn his title as tutor of wart and Kay. But in this chapter the author describes Sir Ector´s castle and how everyone saw it, including Wart in particular.

“The castle of the Forest Sauvage” or Sir Ector´s castle is more like a town or village than a man´s house, because whenever there was danger near the state people would go to Sir ector´s castle to be safe. The castle has a big wood bridge as an entrance, and is surrounded by thick stone walls with guarding towers that could shoot flaming arrows to the outside and inside, so that whenever invasors went up to the tower they could shoot them in their way up. Plus inside the walls, before you could enter the castle itself there were many traps. The castle defenses are so great that it has changed hands by secession often, by siege only once, by treachery twice, but never by assault.  

The castle from inside was beautiful and enormous with many different rooms, passages, stairs, and more… I am sure that if you wanted to know the castle you would spend days or even weeks detecting which where the stables, the mews, the cow byres,  the armoury, the lofts, the well, the smithy, the kennel, the soldier´s quarters, the priest´s room and the lord´s and lady´s chambers.

As you can see this was a paradise for a boy like Wart which would spend endless hours playing around the castle like a cat, pretending to be a knight going on great and dangerous quests. Just imagine living in a Castle, so many things to do, to explore, to learn.

So as a conclusion the only thing I can now say is, How doesn´t the setting contribute to the story?


See you next week and thanks for reading!

I apologize for not posting last week; it was because I couldn’t read much. But today I will tell you more of what has happened and will introduce you a new character.

Until know Sir Pellinor talked with Wart about his life, but then he heard the questing beast and went off quickly after it, leaving Wart alone once more. Wart decided to sleep and when he woke up the next day he heard a noise of metal and followed it thinking that It could be Sir Pellinor; Instead he found out a little cottage from where there was a man taking water from a well, the old man lived in the cottage and he invited Wart over to have breakfast and afterwards he took him back to Sir Ector´s castle; because he told him that he would be his tutor. The name of this kind old man is Merlyn…

Now, Merlyn is a magician; he has an owl named Archimedes who talks but only to people he likes, at the beginning he didn´t liked Wart so he didn´t speak to him; Merlyn doesn´t talk to much, he is quite silent, but something that we know about him is that:according to him people are born forward time and see things forward time nevertheless he was born in the wrong time so he sees thing backwards time, kind of weird but that can explain why he had breakfast prepared for two and knew Wart´s name. I think merlyn will be a very interesting character and will also be very important in the story so don´t worry will keep an eye on him.

Thak you very much for raeding my post, Promise I will post next week about what will happen, see you...

Hi! This is my first entry for the book I am reading, hope you like it!

To be honest I am just starting the book and while I´ve been reading, I have noticed that this book is the kind of book in which the narrator starts talking of a situation as if you already had knowledge of it, so it is kind of difficult to understand at the begging but after read more you start catching up with the book and understand more.

So… What I understand from what I´ve been reading is that a king named Sir Ector, has a son named Kay and a Wart (I don´t know if that’s his name, all I know is Sir Ector is his guardian ). They are like brothers but Kay is very arrogant while The Wart is in Kay´s shadow always quiet.

One day Kay went falconing with Wart, Kay was supposed to follow the rules of falconing while trying to fly Cully, the falcon; but he was arrogant and even do Wart wanted to warn him about following the rules but couldn´t, Kay messed up and Cully flied away in to the woods, after a long time Kay decided to live the falcon, even if that would hurt Hod´s feelings ( Hod had teach the falcon), but Wart decided to stay there and take Cully back to the palace.

After a long time Wart decided to go deeper in the woods, even do there were speakings of dragons, warlocks, and many other threats; Night fell and Wart couldn´t go back to the palace, and when he was just about to reach Cully someone attacked him with an arrow which he dodge, while running away Wart got lost into the dark woods and when he realized he couldn’t go back, he started to cry hoping for his life to come to an end, but suddenly he found a clearing in the forest, then he saw a Knight on a white horse and thought it was a ghost, but as he went closer he delivered to talk with the knight. The knight told him he was king Pellinore, he was also lost and had been lost for seventeen years, trying to reach Sir Ector´s castle and had been after the questing beast ever since.

For the moment this is the problem in the story, and it´s begging to make sense.

Hope you liked it! And see you in a week .ara modificar.

The  book I choose is "The once and future King"  by T.H.White. This is the world´s greatest fantasy classic! Camelot and Romance and wizardry and war by the author of "The book of Merlyn".
I choose this book because when I was little the first book I ever loved was " King Arthur rides again, more less", this book was of Arthur´s last days, and that book was very special to me bacause with that book I started to like reading and to know what type of books I liked. And know with this book that I ramdomly found at the shcool library I had a flashback of that very special book that I read so many years ago, even do is not the same I know it is in the same world with same characters, and now that I am older I can understand better this sort of books.
I will be posting every week a reflection or so about what I´ve been reading.
Hope you like it...