Digitized: A Fictional Narrative

The Green Knight, serves as a symbol himself. He is presented as a mixture of foreign and familiar, evil and good. In the beginning the Green Knight is carrying peace(holly-branch) in one hand and war(battle axe) in the other.

Standing alone, hunched over listening to news headlines, this is how Theodore Twombly rides the train. When the system in his ear comes to the article whose headline describes a pregnant actress who took naked photos, his face lights up. He then pulls out his flip screen to look at these photos. The camera pans out to showcase the entire car where everyone has a little piece of machinery lodged in their ear. It is clear that Theodore is lonely and depressed. Nevertheless, in a train car full of people, everyone ignores each other. No facial expression looks friendly enough to strike up a conversation.

When the Green Knight challenged the people in the court, no one stepped forward and so this leads to concluding that Sir Gawain waited to see if someone else would accept the challenge or not. When no one accepted the challenge, the Green Knight had mocked the knights of King Arthur, which indirectly hurted Sir Gawain’s pride. As Sir Gawain was doubtful to accept the challenge at first contradicted his honorable and courageous characteristics as a Knight. At this point, the author leaves the readers interested as to what will take place next. “Will the Green Knight and Sir Gawain play the game?” Or “Who will win and how will this game be played?” After so many thoughts possibly surrounding the reader's mind, the author discloses that Sir Gawain decides to fearlessly slits the Green Knight’s head, with the promise in mind that he has to go find the Green Knight after twelve months. The readers can see that Sir Gawain slit the Green Knight's head, in order to lessen the pain that he felt when his pride was hurt. Here, at this particular point of the story a new twist takes place! That twist left all the people of the court dumbfounded and speechless. As the readers were also astounded and disgusted upon seeing the Green Knight carrying his own head and exiting the court. This incident really had the readers thinking about where this story is headed

Sir Gawain finally moves on from the castle and goes to the Green chapel, which happens to be a mound. He gets there, and is admittedly scared, but ready to die. The Green knight goes to strike Sir Gawain with his axe, but does not. The Green knight notices Sir Gawain flinches and begins to mock him. Sir Gawain proceeds to tell the Green knight that he will not be able to pick up his head like the Green knight did. The Green Knight goes to strike Sir Gawain a second time and Sir Gawain does not flinch this time. Sir Gawain is ready to die now after the first flinch. The Green knight then went to strike Sir Gawain a third time and he began to get frustrated, the Green knight began to talk with Sir

Arthur is stunned by the challenge, and hesitates to respond. When the Green Knight mocks Arthur’s silence, the king steps forward to take the challenge. But when Arthur grips the Green Knight’s axe, Sir Gawain steps in and volunteers to take the challenge himself. In one great blow, Gawain cuts off the knight’s head. The court stands shocked to discover that the now-headless Green Knight picks up his severed head. He rides away with his head in his hand, repeating the terms of the challenge, reminding the young Gawain to seek him in a year and a day at the Green Chapel. The court returns to its festivities, but Gawain is nervous. (He did not expect the Green Knight to live, of course!)

King Arthur and his knights were celebrating Christmas. While celebrating, the Green Knight comes and offers a challenge. At first, no one accepts the challenge and it makes King Arthur mad. After King Arthur accepts, Sir Gawain says his life isn’t as valuable as the others and he accepts; however, he shouldn’t have thought his life wasn’t as valuable. Once Sir Gawain accepts, he takes the axe from King Arthur while the Green

We shouted back and forth. And when push came to shove, I ended up on the kitchen floor of our apartment with shattered glass and broken china all around me. For a sec, I felt stunned, but soon went into survival mode. I recalled the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde life I had endured growing up with my drunken abusive dad. No way, would I repeat that terror again with Mark.

“Bubby come down here, I have a game I want to play with you.” The next thing I know Gabe is sprinting down the slippery wooden steps, to hear what this game consists of. I tell him that we are going to mimic the band the Jonas Brothers, and he is all for it. We rapidly grab Mom’s wooden dining room table chairs and placed them into a staggered line. Then we travel down to Dad’s storage compartment and grab some screwdrivers and a drill. I know we are set up for success from there, I tell Gabe that I will be on drums if he will play the guitar. Seconds later He and I are going to town on the wooden chairs using the screwdrivers as drumsticks, playing numerous hit songs. Then we hear the furious footsteps of Mom. She comes storming down the

One of them charged at him, and he ducked under the long sword. The glint of light that reflected it blinded him for a bit, leaving him open. His opponent made a nice clean cut on his side in a swift

King Arthur and his knights are having the holiday feasts around the table in the hall. Suddenly, an unknown green knight enters to their hall on the horseback. He humiliates Arthur and his knights and therefore Arthur invites him to have a fight, but he refuses. However, he challenges someone to strike him with his own axe instead. Gawain, the niece of Arthur, feels offended and stands up to take the challenge. He then chops the green knight’s head. However, the green knight does not fall down from his horse, but goes down and picks up his head. After that, he left and everyone enjoys the feast again. The next day, Sir Gawain accepts his quest sadly to look for the Green Chapel. Although he meets a multitude of enemies on his way, he always

The Green Knight travels to Arthur’s court to challenge the bravest knight. The Green Knight will allow the challenger to strike him with his axe once, afterwards the challenger must find the Green Knight one year and a day after. Once the challenger finds the Green Knight he must allow himself to be struck by a blow dealt by the Green Knight. At first Arthur is annoyed by the challenge, its Christmas time and he has no patience for such nonsense after no one volunteers to stand up to the Green Knight Arthur does. “No warrior worth his salt would be worried about your words, so in heaven’s good name hand over the axe and I’ll happily fulfill the favor you ask.” (192) I think he only agreed so the Green Knight would go away.

Somehow, I kept him from getting a shot at my ribs. I countered. The ogre sidestepped it effortlessly, but there was a change in his face. His eyes narrowed, and he started to press me with more force. The sword grew heavy in my hand. My arm trembled. I knew it was only a matter of moments before he took me down, so I figured, What the heck?

Later on in the night, a loud rattling wakes one of the sleeping knights. The knight calls upon the one taking the post to investigate the noise and resting his head again. Gwaine moves from his post to the sound with a sword at hand ready to fight. Unsuspectingly the trees rattle letting its leaves fall and begin to shift as dryads soon notify the people of Camelot that they've begun their raid.

Peeking over his shoulder, I sometimes try to join him, not in the hiding, just in the disappearing. But he no longer needs — or wants — me to play with him as we did years ago on a silver Game Boy Advance. On it, I would be his eyes and his fingers. I read the words he did not know and used my more nimble, less chubby fingers to control our avatar’s movements.

In the beginning of the work, the knights of the round table and King Arthur are celebrating the New Years. This, going by the Hero’s Quest archetype, is represented as the common day world or the threatened community. This celebration is then interrupted by an unsettling presence; the Green Knight. It is at this point the uninvited guest calls for a challenge, “If anyone from this hall holds himself so hardy, so bold both of brain and blood, as to dare strike me one stroke for another, I will give him as a gift this ax, which is heavy enough, in sooth, to handle as he may list, and I will abide the first blow, unarmed as I sit.”,which is interpreted as the call to adventure (Weston #). The mentor figure, in which King Arthur fits into, accepts the challenge, only to be interrupted by Sir Gawain, Arthur’s nephew; the story’s hero. Gawain accepts the challenge and cuts the Knight’s head off. However, he picks it back up and tells him he will see him next year. It is at this point that the Green Knight can be seen as the Herald and the Creature of Nightmare for Gawain at the same time, since he now has an entire year of anticipation for his beheading by the Knight. However, it isn’t until the near