Castles: A Fictional Narrative

“Are you finding anything?” Castle asked as he searched the papers for any sign that something changed in Amy Dehner’s life. “‘Cause so far all I’ve figured out is she went to the same coffee shop almost everyday around eight o’clock.”

At night, the queen’s Hirdin—her elite guard—dragged people from their homes, accused them of disloyalty, and took them to the castle tower. Screams of anguish were heard day and

“And though so much distinguished, he was wise/ and in his bearing modest as a maid” (70-71). The Knight is admired by all because of his protection and respect for them.

The Green Knight, symbolic of the cyclicality of nature, as well as the relationship between civilization and nature, proposes a game of beheading--or rather, an assessment of mettle. “. . . several of the lords were like statues in their seats, left speechless and rigid, not risking a response” (241-242). The court’s response, or lack thereof, to the Green Knight’s proposal, further illustrates the moment of disrupted expectations among readers, for despite the court’s projected clan of esteemed, battle-hardened warriors, the opportunity arose to reveal frightened, naive, and untested soldiers. The Green Knight critically alludes to the court’s acclaimed status, emphasizing the irony of the predicament and therefore the recurring theme, for despite the court’s revered reputation, they remain idle. “. . . your castle and brotherhood are called the best, the strongest men to ever mount the saddle, the worthiest knights ever known to the world, both in competition and in true combat . . .

In the aforementioned tale, “The Knight with the Two Swords,” many forces are at work, including magic and brotherly love, but at its close, honor emerges as the primary reason behind the undoing of the double sword-wielding Balin. The final message is intriguing: pride’s paradoxical traits lead one to glory and avoidable death.

As a grayish-pink dawn trickled across the sky, the battle raged on. Odin's men seemed to be everywhere. When two fell, three appeared in their place. During a pause in the fighting, Percival glanced around. Too many of Camelot's knights lay injured or dead, their blood leaking onto the sand, coloring it a cruel rust-red. The tang of burned flesh met his nose. Then another scent grew stronger, fear, that unmistakable, pungent smell of sweat mixed with metallic blood and

“My great grandpa used to play with that little girl that used to live in that abandoned house. She was the only child her name was Elizabeth. Her dad drank and her mom was a dead beat. She got abused by her father. Late one night Elizabeth snuck out of her house and came to my Great Grandpa's house his name was Albert. She knocked on his window and he didn't answer so she opened the window and woke him up and told him let's go. Her blue eyes were as a bright as a diamond sparkling through the little light from the moon that came through the open window. She was wearing a long white nightgown and her long brown hair was flowing in the wind that came from the open

Once upon a time, there stood a magnificent castle on the near edge of a glorious cliff. Sunlight shone in through the glass panes and danced around the inside, illuminating the beautiful insides of carved stone, silk tapestries and the bedazzled throne belonging to the royal family. The king, and queen both ran a monarchy, which worked well for the copious amount of people that lived in the kingdom. Regardless, the subjects under the ruling were grateful to have such kind and easy rulers, that took care of the people.

If the Danish reach Oslo our kingdom will fall, and our people will die, so stand with me and fight the hoard that beckons beyond those doors,” the king spoke as the gates screeched on their rusty hinges and archers took their positions along the fortress wall. As the gates parted, the Danish knights lead by King Hamlet made landfall, whilst troops on warships lit the fuse on heavy, rusted iron canons. As the fire burnt towards the black powder chamber, the Norwegian knights lead by Fortinbras advanced on Hamlet’s army at which arrows where fired which fell like heavy rain towards them. The Danish knights rose there shiny, silver shields above them deflecting the arrows which left the slightest mark. As the black powder exploded cannonballs where projected with ferocious speed to towards the Norwegian archers. The cannon balls collided with the wall, on which the archers stood, causing the stone to crack and the wall to crumble. The fortress wall fell with the intensity of thunder creating an avalanche of stone burying the archers and any knights who stood below in pile of thick, immovable

The film that I watched this week was called, A Man’s Castle, directed by Frank Borzage. The film was about a tuxedo-wearing man Bill—played by Spencer Tracy—meeting a showgirl Trina—played by Loretta Young—and their love story during the great depression era. Bill meets Trina when he sees that she is starving and is constantly staring at him while eats his popcorn. He offers her some popcorn and tells her to go out to dinner with him. They talk some more when Trina realizes that Bill is almost poor as well when he brings her to his house in a shantytown. Trina stays with Bill and eventually falls in love with him, even though he treats her quite harshly. She tells Bill that she’s pregnant and he is ready to skip town, but he wants to leave

King Arthur 's knights were mighty and courageous and although they gave everything they had, they were falling fast under the weight of the enemy 's sword.

He had trained over the past 14 years and has been doing much fieldwork to help his father. Today was the big day. There was going to be a battle in the town square to see who would be the new apprentice for Sr. John. He was the greatest commander of the king's infantry but sadly his trustworthy, and loyal friend, Zane had lost hope and joined the side of the barbarians. The war had just begun do to a misunderstanding. There was a treaty but in the treaty it showed that the barbarians had less land while the king had more. So they claimed war. This has been going for about 3 years now. So Sr. John needed a new apprentice to be a new knight. Peter began to travel down the road to the town when his father said,” What are you doing?” “I’m going to the battle to become a knight father” Peter said. “ But…. I thought we agreed no.” “Father I want to get out in the world learn something new I can’t stay here for the rest of my life.” “Fine son but be careful, you know those men can play dirty.” “Yes father I will be careful.” As Peter came down the road there was many people so he walked up to the line and saw there was many challengers so he grabbed his mighty sword, which he made in the blacksmith shop, and put his armor on. The battle had started he moved swiftly with agility so that he might not get hit. He had already taken down two. There were four left so he waited

The song "Castles Made of Sand" was written by Jimi Hendrix in his album "Axis: Bold As Love," released in May of 1967. This song is basically composed of three narratives of life situations. The recurring theme throughout this song is slight variations of the line: "castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually." The overall message of this song seems to be that love, dreams, happiness and even life itself cannot be depended on to last.

As host on the trail to Canterbury I have the honor of judging all the stories told by my companions. The tales ranged from love to death to despair, but only one can win. The Knight is a valiant, young soul who never ceases to impress on and off the battlefield. His tale also impresses its audience. The knight is the winner because his tale is filled with love, pain, adventure.

The Knight uses courtly themes and language. He tells the audience about something after telling them he is not going to tell them about it. This technique adds to the length of his story. He writes using a lengthy dramatic description of both noble and courtly themes and language. It upsets him to hear of tragic falls. He doesn't like conflict of any sort. Which is ironic since he has been in many battles. If he told another story it