Wow a lot has happened since chapter 21! I seriously have had a hard time stopping to live life, and not read the book. The story is captivating since it's broken up into MULTIPLE points of view. Like "The Lord of the Rings", and unlike say Harry Potter, Twilight or 50 shades (the first few, top selling books these days that came to mind. I am so sorry to compare it to 50 shades and twilight), it is not written from ONE point of view with one protagonist, ie. Harry, Bella, or whoever the hero is supposed to be in 50 shades. I don't even know who the main protagonist is, but so far there are favorites, and I expect each reader will have his/ her favorites. Favorites will change throughout the book, and books.
There is so much to contemplate in this book: Tyrion tells Bron, a sell-sword (sword for hire, mercenary), that the Starks look for certain qualities in their employees/ men for their guard. The qualities are Honesty, Loyalty and Courage. and Bronn wasn't any of it. However it made me wonder if we look for any of those qualities anymore. DO we just look at education and think "Oh he's from Harvard and has a 4.0, and was on the dean's list. He's hired". What about courage, honesty, loyalty? Good qualities, being a good person doesn't really matter, or maybe cause they (the prospective employers) will snoop and look at your facebook profile anyway and see if you drink or party too much (cause that's a bad quality in most careers). Or what do you think- bravery, Loyalty, Honor something we look for at all these days? What do these words mean now a days compared to back then? Are these still good characteristics?
The quick mouthed Tyrion is quite the "smart ass", he can slight even the king, and get away with it, because of his status as the Queen's Brother, but otherwise he would have had his head chopped off in a jiffy. He does admire, and appreciate good traits and qualities in other people though. It is revealed that his brother and father did something rather mean to him, when he was a child. They tricked him into falling in love and having sex with a woman whom he thought was a young maiden, but was actually a hired virgin (prostitute). He married her, and then they shatter Tyrion's dreams of love, family and life, by passing the girl around in court. I had no idea what the point of it was, or what lesson they were trying to teach Tyrion... other than men can do this to women. Pigs.
Talking about men abusing women: Viserys continues to abuse, belittle, talk down on, emotionally and physically threaten and hurt his little pregnant princess of a sister Dany. She made clothes for him, painstakingly so and he manhandles her, mistreats her and is not gracious at all for what she made for him. He says such awful things, he really needs to be shown his place soon. Previously, Dany had the guts to, when he acted up previously, punish him slightly by making him walk. Her becoming the Khal's wife, has given her confidence. She even took control of her marriage, by taking control during intercourse, so much that 1- her husband doesn't share her with his blood riders, 2- he doesn't take other women (I think that was what it said). She has grown as a character, and I hope she grows even more. She has good teachers, and she analysis with her heart and head, unlike most of the other men in the book. She is almost like Ned.
Speaking of crazy women: we are introduced to Catelyn's sister, Lyssa. Oh boy, what a piece of work. She wasn't always completely nutters, it happened recently when she lost a couple of babies in miscarriages, politics, living in Kings Landing, and losing her husband. She is batty about her son, and her son is a pretty boy - he still suckles from his mother's breast and I am sure he is more than 5 years old, even Catelyn thinks this odd. He shakes at everything, and seems frightened, or flighty about things. In Bengali we would say he was "Nakka". Nakka kids in Bengal are toughened up, by a good tight slap, or something. Basically she has spoiled this kid rotten, and I mean worse than Prince Joffrey.
Ned quit being the King's hand, because the King decided he wanted to send an assassin to kill Dany and her unborn child, because the unborn child would be heir to his throne and thus a threat. New wanted to have nothing to do with this. By this time the news of Catelyn arresting Tyrion and taking him prisoner for him having hired someone to assassinate her son Bran, had reached the Lannisters. So Jaime was out for blood, so he killed some of Ned's closest men.
Arya on the other hand had been taking "dancing lessons" AKA fencing! She was told to catch all the cats at the red keep, but one constantly eluded her. This one cat took her to places of all sorts, until she ended up inadvertently spying on two people! She took the news back to her father, after what I would say was an adventure, but for her it was normal. Of course her father did not believe her. When her father got back wounded due to Jaime Lannister's attack, Arya was livid. Remember her wolf is lost somewhere, and Sansa's wolf is dead...
Jon is out on the wall, helping the weak, and being strong... the true lord, regardless of his bastard-ness. He is loyal, courageous and honest.
Breathe!
There is so much to contemplate in this book: Tyrion tells Bron, a sell-sword (sword for hire, mercenary), that the Starks look for certain qualities in their employees/ men for their guard. The qualities are Honesty, Loyalty and Courage. and Bronn wasn't any of it. However it made me wonder if we look for any of those qualities anymore. DO we just look at education and think "Oh he's from Harvard and has a 4.0, and was on the dean's list. He's hired". What about courage, honesty, loyalty? Good qualities, being a good person doesn't really matter, or maybe cause they (the prospective employers) will snoop and look at your facebook profile anyway and see if you drink or party too much (cause that's a bad quality in most careers). Or what do you think- bravery, Loyalty, Honor something we look for at all these days? What do these words mean now a days compared to back then? Are these still good characteristics?
The quick mouthed Tyrion is quite the "smart ass", he can slight even the king, and get away with it, because of his status as the Queen's Brother, but otherwise he would have had his head chopped off in a jiffy. He does admire, and appreciate good traits and qualities in other people though. It is revealed that his brother and father did something rather mean to him, when he was a child. They tricked him into falling in love and having sex with a woman whom he thought was a young maiden, but was actually a hired virgin (prostitute). He married her, and then they shatter Tyrion's dreams of love, family and life, by passing the girl around in court. I had no idea what the point of it was, or what lesson they were trying to teach Tyrion... other than men can do this to women. Pigs.
Talking about men abusing women: Viserys continues to abuse, belittle, talk down on, emotionally and physically threaten and hurt his little pregnant princess of a sister Dany. She made clothes for him, painstakingly so and he manhandles her, mistreats her and is not gracious at all for what she made for him. He says such awful things, he really needs to be shown his place soon. Previously, Dany had the guts to, when he acted up previously, punish him slightly by making him walk. Her becoming the Khal's wife, has given her confidence. She even took control of her marriage, by taking control during intercourse, so much that 1- her husband doesn't share her with his blood riders, 2- he doesn't take other women (I think that was what it said). She has grown as a character, and I hope she grows even more. She has good teachers, and she analysis with her heart and head, unlike most of the other men in the book. She is almost like Ned.
Speaking of crazy women: we are introduced to Catelyn's sister, Lyssa. Oh boy, what a piece of work. She wasn't always completely nutters, it happened recently when she lost a couple of babies in miscarriages, politics, living in Kings Landing, and losing her husband. She is batty about her son, and her son is a pretty boy - he still suckles from his mother's breast and I am sure he is more than 5 years old, even Catelyn thinks this odd. He shakes at everything, and seems frightened, or flighty about things. In Bengali we would say he was "Nakka". Nakka kids in Bengal are toughened up, by a good tight slap, or something. Basically she has spoiled this kid rotten, and I mean worse than Prince Joffrey.
Ned quit being the King's hand, because the King decided he wanted to send an assassin to kill Dany and her unborn child, because the unborn child would be heir to his throne and thus a threat. New wanted to have nothing to do with this. By this time the news of Catelyn arresting Tyrion and taking him prisoner for him having hired someone to assassinate her son Bran, had reached the Lannisters. So Jaime was out for blood, so he killed some of Ned's closest men.
Arya on the other hand had been taking "dancing lessons" AKA fencing! She was told to catch all the cats at the red keep, but one constantly eluded her. This one cat took her to places of all sorts, until she ended up inadvertently spying on two people! She took the news back to her father, after what I would say was an adventure, but for her it was normal. Of course her father did not believe her. When her father got back wounded due to Jaime Lannister's attack, Arya was livid. Remember her wolf is lost somewhere, and Sansa's wolf is dead...
Jon is out on the wall, helping the weak, and being strong... the true lord, regardless of his bastard-ness. He is loyal, courageous and honest.
Breathe!
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