Ch.1
We are introduced to Kay, Sir Ector, and Wart. Wart is not Sir Ector’s son like Kay is and it is constantly rubbed in his face by Kay. Kay and Wart need a tutor. After hay-making, Wart and Kay decide to go hawking
Comments
So Far I like the authors writing style and how he describes everything in so much detail. He also compares scenes in the book to modern day events that the reader can relate to.
Ch.2
Cully, the goshawk, is sitting in a tree because he does not want to hunt. Kay gets irritated and leaves Wart and Cully in the woods. Cully leads Wart deeper into the woods. Wart almost gets killed by an arrow so he hides but soon loses his way and gets lost. Wart wanders around, arrives in a clearing and meets with a knight. The knight turns out to be King Pellinore searching for the Questing Beast.
Ch.3
Vocabulary: Corkindrill
Wart falls asleep in the woods and awakens at 9 am because he is hungry. He hears a noise so he follows it and finds a cottage with an old gentleman getting water from the well. The old gentleman was Merlyn the magician. Merlyn’s cottage is filled with all kinds of odd things that were not yet discovered then (ex. guns). Wart meets Archimedes the talking owl. Wart then has breakfast with Merlyn and asks him to be his tutor. Merlyn accepts.
Ch.4
Vocabulary: Stoat
Wart takes Merlyn home with him and Merlyn proves he is a magician to Kay and Sir Ector (makes it snow, mulberry tree, testimonials, knife). Sir Ector decides to let Merlyn be their tutor.
Ch.5
Description of defense system, castle still there, dog training. Wart loves his dog (licks nose) and Merlyn begins Warts education. Merlyn takes Wart to the moat and asks Neptune to turn them both into fishes. Merlyn heals a Roach fish. Merlyn then takes Wart to go see the King of the Moat. The king tells Wart all about power.
1st lesson learned
Power can corrupt you.
Ch.6
Archery, Merlyn falls asleep, Kay and Wart go hunt rabbits. Kay gets a rabbit, when saluting the death of the rabbit; a crow snatches the arrow out of the air.
Ch.7
Vocabulary: Quintain, Saracen
Tilting, Merlyn is against athletics because they interfere with learning. King Pellinore jousting in the forest against Sir Grummore Grummursum, after the joust they become best friends and King Pellinore moves in with Sir Grummore Grummursum.
2nd lesson learned
Violence is not the answer
Ch.8
Wart wants to be a hawk but Merlyn says that he first needs to learn to be a human being. Merlyn then turns him into a Merlin and sends him into the mews; Wart is admitted into their club but must pass an ordeal. The ordeal is to sit next to Colonel Cully (he is insane) and sit there for 3 rings of their bells. Wart survives. He is then proclaimed King of Merlin’s.
3rd lesson learned
You can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
Ch.9
Kay and Wart get into a fight, a storm begins. Wart thinks it is unfair that Merlyn turns him into animals but not Kay. Merlyn tells Wart the story of Elijah and the Rabbi Jachanan. Merlyn can not do magic on Kay so in return he sends Kay and Wart on an adventure to atone for the previous unfair treatment.
Ch.10
Kay and Wart go out on their adventure and find a madman, then a giant also known as “Little John”. Little John takes them to Robin Wood (who people often refer to as Robin Hood). Robin asks them to go with him to fight Morgan le Fay. Apparently a fairy captured Wat, Dog Boy, and Tuck. To save them, they must go into Morgan’s castle and free them.
Ch.11
Wart and Kay travel with Robin Wood’s gang to the castle and learn how to move silently (thanks to Maid Marian) through the woods. When they arrive they see a Griffin and a castle made of food. They enter and find Morgan le Fay and she releases the prisoners and the castle disappears.
Ch.12
The Griffin attacks Wart but Kay kills it in midair. As a reward Kay gets the Griffins head, Wart asks for Wat (so Merlyn can make him sane and give him a nose). Kay, Wart, Wat, Dog Boy, and a few of Robin’s friends (to guide them) go home. Back home Merlyn sews a new nose on Wat and psycho analyzed him so now he is sane again and working in the kennel with the Dog Boy who also got a nose. Both Dog Boy and Wat decide that they are accustomed to not having noses so they rip them off.
Ch.13
Vocabulary: Belligerent
Merlyn turns Wart into an ant while he is supposed to be resting. Wart drones around like the rest of the ants and realizes how horrible it is to be an ant (they do not have emotions and do not think)
4th lesson learned
Do not let others think for you, think for your self.
Ch.14
King Uther Pendragon sends a hunting group lead by William Twyti to hunt in the forest and stay in Sir Ectors castle. Sir Ector is not pleased by this self invitation made by the king so he thinks of all the possible scenarios if Twyti comes (unicorns, questing beast, dragons, griffins, ect.). These thoughts soon cheer him up.
Ch.15
There is a very detailed description of the seasons in Old England. For Christmas, Sir Ector organizes a huge feast for all villagers, knights, workers, servants to attend. Everyone is welcomed.
Ch.16
Master William Twyti has a fascination with rabbits, description of how dull Twyti life is (all about hunting) hunting boars, King Pellinore finds the Questing Beast dying. Pellinore is so upset that he resolves to help the beast back to health and continue his old life of hunting it.
Comments
Bearskin rug as a blanket? What do all of the hunting sayings “swef swef tally-ho” mean?
Ch.17
Birds have a language, Rooks have laws, and the bird language of birds is based on imitations of sounds.
Comments
I love the way Archimedes describes Pigeons. What kind of bird is a Rook?
Ch.18
Merlyn sends Archimedes to Wart room with a magical dead mouse and tells him to eat it, Wart then turns into an owl. While flying around, Wart notices that everything in a bird’s point of view is different than the human point of view that he is used to. Wart then turns into a goose. He learns that geese have no boundaries and that they consider it preposterous to kill one of their own species as humans do.
5th lesson learned
Everyone should be treated with kindness.
Ch.19
Vocabulary: Liefer
Wart learns many things from his friend Lyo-lyok (goose) and he grows fond of her. Wart migrates with them across the North Sea and hears their songs. Along the way they reach a lonely island where only birds live. When they finally reach their destination, Wart wakes up because Kay is complaining about Warts snores.
Comments
I absolutely love the description of flying through a cloud.
6th lesson learned
You can accomplish the unthinkable, if you put your mind to it.
Ch.20
Vocabulary: Sciatica
6 years go by and Kay is going to be knighted and Wart will be his squire. They drift apart because Kay lets his “knighthood” get to his head. Merlyn explains to Wart what happens at a knighting ceremony and Wart tells Merlyn that he would pray to encounter all evil and defeat it and if he were to lose, then he would be conquered alone.
Ch.21
Vocabulary: Canary
Wart is very upset because he wants to become a knight not a squire. Sir Ector tells him to drink a glass of Canary and go see Merlyn. Merlyn tells Wart that the only thing you can rely on when all else fails is learning. Before going onto the next lesson, Merlyn informs Wart that it will be the last lesson that he will have and that Merlyn will no longer be his tutor. Merlyn turns Wart into a badger and sends him to go speak with his friend Mr. Badger. Instead of following his directions, Wart decides to wander about and do whatever he feels like because it is his last lesson and so he deserves to have some fun. He finds a hedgehog and threatens to eat it. The poor little hedgehog sings to Wart so that he will have mercy for him and his wife and children. After singing the same songs several times Wart talks to the hedgehog and discovers that the hedgehog was once Merlyn’s pet and that it was a baby when Wart went to Merlyn’s cottage and he had actually seen him. Wart leaves the hedgehog alone and returns to Mr. Badger’s den. Mr. Badger reads Wart an essay that he had written on why Man is the King of Animals. He once again hears about how disturbing it is that Humans are one of seven species that attack their own kind.
Ch.22
King Uther Pendragon dies. King Pellinore tells Sir Ector, Kay, and Sir Grummore that there is no heirs but that there is a stone in an anvil on a stone that if you pull it out than you are the true King of England. Merlyn is leaving permanently and they all say their goodbyes, Wart is crushed.
Ch.23
They travel to London and Sir Kay enters a tournament but discovers that he has forgotten his sword so he sends Wart his squire to get it from the inn. The inn was locked and there wasn’t anyone around there so Wart frantically starts searching for a sword to give to Kay. He sees a sword in a churchyard that is stuck in an anvil and a stone (he does not know about the meaning of the sword) and he gets the sword. While he was getting the sword he felt like he was surrounded by his friends including Merlyn and they were all giving him advice on how to get the sword out. When he gets it out he notices that he feels differently when holding it. He gives Kay the sword and Kay asks him where he go it, Wart tells him and Kay goes to his father and tells him where the sword came from only that he told his father that he was the one that pulled the sword out of the stone. Sir Ector, Kay, and Wart go back to the churchyard and put the sword back in the stone. Kay confesses that he lied and that Wart was the one who pulled it out. Sir Ector tells him to do it again and Wart pulls the sword out like nothing. Sir Ector ands Kay try but they do not succeed. So they kneel before Wart and Wart starts crying and begs them to stand back up.
Ch.24
Description of who sent Wart what for his coronation gift and Merlyn comes to him. Wart, or should I say, King Arthur, asks Merlyn if he is going to stay with him and Merlyn says that he is going to stay there with him for a long time.
We are introduced to Kay, Sir Ector, and Wart. Wart is not Sir Ector’s son like Kay is and it is constantly rubbed in his face by Kay. Kay and Wart need a tutor. After hay-making, Wart and Kay decide to go hawking
Comments
So Far I like the authors writing style and how he describes everything in so much detail. He also compares scenes in the book to modern day events that the reader can relate to.
Ch.2
Cully, the goshawk, is sitting in a tree because he does not want to hunt. Kay gets irritated and leaves Wart and Cully in the woods. Cully leads Wart deeper into the woods. Wart almost gets killed by an arrow so he hides but soon loses his way and gets lost. Wart wanders around, arrives in a clearing and meets with a knight. The knight turns out to be King Pellinore searching for the Questing Beast.
Ch.3
Vocabulary: Corkindrill
Wart falls asleep in the woods and awakens at 9 am because he is hungry. He hears a noise so he follows it and finds a cottage with an old gentleman getting water from the well. The old gentleman was Merlyn the magician. Merlyn’s cottage is filled with all kinds of odd things that were not yet discovered then (ex. guns). Wart meets Archimedes the talking owl. Wart then has breakfast with Merlyn and asks him to be his tutor. Merlyn accepts.
Ch.4
Vocabulary: Stoat
Wart takes Merlyn home with him and Merlyn proves he is a magician to Kay and Sir Ector (makes it snow, mulberry tree, testimonials, knife). Sir Ector decides to let Merlyn be their tutor.
Ch.5
Description of defense system, castle still there, dog training. Wart loves his dog (licks nose) and Merlyn begins Warts education. Merlyn takes Wart to the moat and asks Neptune to turn them both into fishes. Merlyn heals a Roach fish. Merlyn then takes Wart to go see the King of the Moat. The king tells Wart all about power.
1st lesson learned
Power can corrupt you.
Ch.6
Archery, Merlyn falls asleep, Kay and Wart go hunt rabbits. Kay gets a rabbit, when saluting the death of the rabbit; a crow snatches the arrow out of the air.
Ch.7
Vocabulary: Quintain, Saracen
Tilting, Merlyn is against athletics because they interfere with learning. King Pellinore jousting in the forest against Sir Grummore Grummursum, after the joust they become best friends and King Pellinore moves in with Sir Grummore Grummursum.
2nd lesson learned
Violence is not the answer
Ch.8
Wart wants to be a hawk but Merlyn says that he first needs to learn to be a human being. Merlyn then turns him into a Merlin and sends him into the mews; Wart is admitted into their club but must pass an ordeal. The ordeal is to sit next to Colonel Cully (he is insane) and sit there for 3 rings of their bells. Wart survives. He is then proclaimed King of Merlin’s.
3rd lesson learned
You can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
Ch.9
Kay and Wart get into a fight, a storm begins. Wart thinks it is unfair that Merlyn turns him into animals but not Kay. Merlyn tells Wart the story of Elijah and the Rabbi Jachanan. Merlyn can not do magic on Kay so in return he sends Kay and Wart on an adventure to atone for the previous unfair treatment.
Ch.10
Kay and Wart go out on their adventure and find a madman, then a giant also known as “Little John”. Little John takes them to Robin Wood (who people often refer to as Robin Hood). Robin asks them to go with him to fight Morgan le Fay. Apparently a fairy captured Wat, Dog Boy, and Tuck. To save them, they must go into Morgan’s castle and free them.
Ch.11
Wart and Kay travel with Robin Wood’s gang to the castle and learn how to move silently (thanks to Maid Marian) through the woods. When they arrive they see a Griffin and a castle made of food. They enter and find Morgan le Fay and she releases the prisoners and the castle disappears.
Ch.12
The Griffin attacks Wart but Kay kills it in midair. As a reward Kay gets the Griffins head, Wart asks for Wat (so Merlyn can make him sane and give him a nose). Kay, Wart, Wat, Dog Boy, and a few of Robin’s friends (to guide them) go home. Back home Merlyn sews a new nose on Wat and psycho analyzed him so now he is sane again and working in the kennel with the Dog Boy who also got a nose. Both Dog Boy and Wat decide that they are accustomed to not having noses so they rip them off.
Ch.13
Vocabulary: Belligerent
Merlyn turns Wart into an ant while he is supposed to be resting. Wart drones around like the rest of the ants and realizes how horrible it is to be an ant (they do not have emotions and do not think)
4th lesson learned
Do not let others think for you, think for your self.
Ch.14
King Uther Pendragon sends a hunting group lead by William Twyti to hunt in the forest and stay in Sir Ectors castle. Sir Ector is not pleased by this self invitation made by the king so he thinks of all the possible scenarios if Twyti comes (unicorns, questing beast, dragons, griffins, ect.). These thoughts soon cheer him up.
Ch.15
There is a very detailed description of the seasons in Old England. For Christmas, Sir Ector organizes a huge feast for all villagers, knights, workers, servants to attend. Everyone is welcomed.
Ch.16
Master William Twyti has a fascination with rabbits, description of how dull Twyti life is (all about hunting) hunting boars, King Pellinore finds the Questing Beast dying. Pellinore is so upset that he resolves to help the beast back to health and continue his old life of hunting it.
Comments
Bearskin rug as a blanket? What do all of the hunting sayings “swef swef tally-ho” mean?
Ch.17
Birds have a language, Rooks have laws, and the bird language of birds is based on imitations of sounds.
Comments
I love the way Archimedes describes Pigeons. What kind of bird is a Rook?
Ch.18
Merlyn sends Archimedes to Wart room with a magical dead mouse and tells him to eat it, Wart then turns into an owl. While flying around, Wart notices that everything in a bird’s point of view is different than the human point of view that he is used to. Wart then turns into a goose. He learns that geese have no boundaries and that they consider it preposterous to kill one of their own species as humans do.
5th lesson learned
Everyone should be treated with kindness.
Ch.19
Vocabulary: Liefer
Wart learns many things from his friend Lyo-lyok (goose) and he grows fond of her. Wart migrates with them across the North Sea and hears their songs. Along the way they reach a lonely island where only birds live. When they finally reach their destination, Wart wakes up because Kay is complaining about Warts snores.
Comments
I absolutely love the description of flying through a cloud.
6th lesson learned
You can accomplish the unthinkable, if you put your mind to it.
Ch.20
Vocabulary: Sciatica
6 years go by and Kay is going to be knighted and Wart will be his squire. They drift apart because Kay lets his “knighthood” get to his head. Merlyn explains to Wart what happens at a knighting ceremony and Wart tells Merlyn that he would pray to encounter all evil and defeat it and if he were to lose, then he would be conquered alone.
Ch.21
Vocabulary: Canary
Wart is very upset because he wants to become a knight not a squire. Sir Ector tells him to drink a glass of Canary and go see Merlyn. Merlyn tells Wart that the only thing you can rely on when all else fails is learning. Before going onto the next lesson, Merlyn informs Wart that it will be the last lesson that he will have and that Merlyn will no longer be his tutor. Merlyn turns Wart into a badger and sends him to go speak with his friend Mr. Badger. Instead of following his directions, Wart decides to wander about and do whatever he feels like because it is his last lesson and so he deserves to have some fun. He finds a hedgehog and threatens to eat it. The poor little hedgehog sings to Wart so that he will have mercy for him and his wife and children. After singing the same songs several times Wart talks to the hedgehog and discovers that the hedgehog was once Merlyn’s pet and that it was a baby when Wart went to Merlyn’s cottage and he had actually seen him. Wart leaves the hedgehog alone and returns to Mr. Badger’s den. Mr. Badger reads Wart an essay that he had written on why Man is the King of Animals. He once again hears about how disturbing it is that Humans are one of seven species that attack their own kind.
Ch.22
King Uther Pendragon dies. King Pellinore tells Sir Ector, Kay, and Sir Grummore that there is no heirs but that there is a stone in an anvil on a stone that if you pull it out than you are the true King of England. Merlyn is leaving permanently and they all say their goodbyes, Wart is crushed.
Ch.23
They travel to London and Sir Kay enters a tournament but discovers that he has forgotten his sword so he sends Wart his squire to get it from the inn. The inn was locked and there wasn’t anyone around there so Wart frantically starts searching for a sword to give to Kay. He sees a sword in a churchyard that is stuck in an anvil and a stone (he does not know about the meaning of the sword) and he gets the sword. While he was getting the sword he felt like he was surrounded by his friends including Merlyn and they were all giving him advice on how to get the sword out. When he gets it out he notices that he feels differently when holding it. He gives Kay the sword and Kay asks him where he go it, Wart tells him and Kay goes to his father and tells him where the sword came from only that he told his father that he was the one that pulled the sword out of the stone. Sir Ector, Kay, and Wart go back to the churchyard and put the sword back in the stone. Kay confesses that he lied and that Wart was the one who pulled it out. Sir Ector tells him to do it again and Wart pulls the sword out like nothing. Sir Ector ands Kay try but they do not succeed. So they kneel before Wart and Wart starts crying and begs them to stand back up.
Ch.24
Description of who sent Wart what for his coronation gift and Merlyn comes to him. Wart, or should I say, King Arthur, asks Merlyn if he is going to stay with him and Merlyn says that he is going to stay there with him for a long time.
~Further Comments~
I think that my favorite lesson is the joust between King Pellinore and Sir Grummore, but I think that the lesson that Wart learned in his adventure in the ants nest will probably help him a lot as a king. My thoughts on Kay are that he is a little bit ’high and mighty' and lets things get to his head too easily but deep down I think he is a good guy. Arthur I think is very kind, a little stubborn, and he loves to learn (especially with Merlyn) so he is intelligent. When in the beginning of the book they describe Merlyn’s cottage you see that he himself is an anachronism and by the way he acts I think it shows too. I think that King Pellinore and his Questing Beast are a really sweet touch to the book, especially when you see how much King Pellinore truly cares about it. I think that Arthur cries because he does not think that he is ready for such a responsibility, but in reality he is.
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I love Pellinore and the Questing Beast! They are so funny and really add comic relief throughout the book! I agree with your reason for Arthur crying when he gets the crown....I would not want that much responsibility! The ants' lesson is an important one - how would you like to live in a society like that?
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