The book starts off with three guys who are out searching
the woods past their castle looking for a group of people who are supposedly
out there. The two guys end up getting
killed by the group of people while the other guy, Gared, is taken with the
group. You don’t actually know this
until the next chapter. In the next
chapter, we were introduced to the Starks.
This chapter was from Bran’s point of view. In this chapter we are introduced to some of
the Starks. This group of people were on
their way to a beheading. This was Bran’s
first time seeing a beheading, and he joined his other brothers and people from
their kingdom in watching Ned, Brans dad, behead a man (Gared). On their way back from the beheading they
found a dead rare wolf called a “direwolf.”
The mother direwolf was dead but she had 6 babies laying around
her. Jon, who is Ned’s bastard child, convinces
him to let all the kids have a wolf to take care of and train on their
own. The next chapter was in the view of
Catelyn, Ned’s wife. This chapter is
important because you find out Jon Arynn, who is Catelyns brother and law and
the hand of the king, is dead. Also, King
Lannister is planning to visit the Starks along with the Queen and the
Lannisters. Ned felt they were coming
with such short notice, but nevertheless welcomed them. The next chapter was the Daenerys
chapter. In this chapter we were introduced
to a guy named Viserys and his sister Daenerys or “Dany” for short. The main part of this chapter is that Viserys
is trying to sell his sister and marry her off to another lord/king and in
trade Viserys will be provided with an army from the lord. The next chapter is
Eddard and this is when the King and his family show up to Winterfell to
visit. They are also grieving the loss
of the hand of the king but while here the king offers Eddard to be the new
hand of the king. Eddard explains that
he is unsure but he has to discuss it with Catelyn, his wife, first, then he
will get back to him. The king also
offers his son to marry Ned’s daughter.
The following chapter is Jon.
This chapter is from Jon’s point of view at the feast and since he is
the bastard child he isn’t allowed to sit with the royal family. He sits at another table drinking wine along
with the company of his direwolf. Jon’s
gets upset at the dinner and runs off into the night. He begins talking to a guy outside and gets
the idea that he would like to join the night watch which is known to be a
dangerous job. The next chapter is from
Catelyns point of view. In this chapter
Catelyn receives a letter from her sister which is written in code that only
they know. She deciphers it and finds
out that her brother in law was murdered.
Ned talks to Catelyn and they decide that it is okay for him to go be
the hand of the king, and they also approve of Jon being in the night watch. Catelyn doesn’t want to take care of Jon
because he’s not her real child and since he is a bastard it also is not good
for him to go south with Ned. In the
following chapter titled “Arya,” we are introduced to the two daughters of Ned,
Arya and Sansa. Sansa is more of a “lady”
while we learn that Arya is a tomboy. She runs away from her sewing duties and
goes to the courtyard to watch the boys’ sword fight. This is where we see the Kings son who he
offered to marry Ned’s daughter and learn that he is pretty arrogant and not a
great guy.
-The last discussion between the King and Ned was confusing, on pages 112-117. What exactly were they talking about with the war and Jaime Lannister?
-Who are the Others and Lannisters?
-Could you explain the 7 kingdoms, or what exactly they are?
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