Tuesday, February 5, 2008

::Peregrine:: by Joan Elizabeth Goodman-Plot

In Peregrine, the exposition is when Lady Edith prepares to go on a journey to travel to Jerusalem, the Holy City. She chooses to go to Jerusalem because she does not want to marry Sir Runcival while she constantly thought of her dead baby and husband. So she goes on the journey with a handful of companions. Then, on the way, Lady Edith meets Rhiannon.

The rising action is when Lady Edith allows Rhiannon to join the company traveling and even gives Rhiannon her lovely blue dress that her husband had given her. At the beginning, Dame Joan [Old Wobbly Chins :P] is always protesting against Edith’s actions of kindness towards Rhiannon. She also finds her brother Simon, and a group of monks with him, and the join on the journey to Jerusalem.

The climax, is when Lady Edith finally reaches Jerusalem, the Holy City she had been longing to reach. At the Holy City, Edith is always worrying over her dead husband and child, and Sir Runcival. She also meets the pope and Queen Melisende during her stay.

The falling action is when Rhiannon finally reveals that she is a princess who ran away from a terrible plan was being plotted, using her against her own family. Also, Lady Edith goes into a church and sees Christ with his child, and her emotions come rushing into her as she remembers her own dead child. Rhiannon goes and comforts Edith, saying that it was time for her to let go of her baby; time to go on with her life. Lady Edith heeds her words and lets her little baby go with a whisper, “Alice”.

The resolution is that Lady Edith learns to choose, not be chosen. She definitely did not want to marry Sir Runcival, and she longed to marry her old childhood friend Will Belet. In the end, she frees herself from all the sorrows over her dead husband and child that left her in the dark. She went towards the light.

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