Arya Stark Essay Conclusion

Arya Stark is the daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn Tully in the books the Game of Thrones. She is the third child and second daughter in the family. Her brothers include Robb, Bran and Rickon as well as a half brother Jon Snow. She is the older sister to Sansa Stark. In the beginning of the books, she is about 9 years old. Arya’s older brothers, Robb and Jon, find six direwolf puppies and each of the children adopts one of them. A direwolf is much like a wolf in the story but said to be much large and more dangerous. Arya loved her direwolf very much and ends up naming her Nymeria after a legendary warrior queen. Arya and her sister, Sansa, travel with their father to King’s Landing when he is made Hand of the King. Both …show more content…
Inferiority. All of the children, except for the two youngest, are learning where they fit into an expanding social world. Arya, for example, is just now developing a sense of confidence and also a pride in her abilities, especially with a sword. Arya is able to develop in this stage due to the support and understanding of her father. At one point in the story, while Arya is at King’s Landing, her father finds the sword that was given to her by her half-brother Jon Snow. Arya’s father tells her that he should take the sword away from her, but due to recent dangers within the castle, he allows her to keep the sword and arranges for a Master of sword to teach her how to use it. This action by her father allowed her to build a strong sense of her own self, as well as, pride in her own abilities. She was also able to learn to cope with her own feelings of inadequacy in this way because she learned quickly from her teacher because she did not know very much at all in the way of using a sword or in self-defense. At one point in the story the Master of sword that she is learning from sends her out into the yard to catch all the stray cats. There is one tom cat that had been around for a long time that continually evades Arya’s capture. The Master of sword would not go on with her lessons until she caught this cat, telling her that she must also learn to move quickly and have dexterity. Of course, this …show more content…
Inferiority serve Arya well in examining her personality. She is growing up with guidance from her father in King’s landing and able to find her own way at the same time. While the relationship that she has with her sister, Sansa, and her mother is not a very good one, I tend to think that this is due in part to their birth order but probably not completely. The two girls seem to be very much opposites in this story line. She is able to explore her who she is as person in King’s Landing with the help of her father and her Master of sword while going against what society deems fit for a girl in this book. She is able discover who she is and what she deems as important to her own identity at the same time. I don’t think that she would have been able to accomplish this had she remained at Winterfeld with her mother. It doesn’t seem to me that her mother would have been a fostering force in allowing her to go outside the cultural norms within the book. But she would have rather tired to force her to conform with what society expects. Of course, while at King’s Landing her lessens were kept secret she was still expected to act the part of a lady when in the presence of the