Analysis Of Goldman's The Princess Bride

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“The tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts.” (Goldman, Back cover) The princess bride starts out with a girl living on a farm and a farmboy slaving away to her every need. When they find out that they both like each other the farm boy moves to america to start a life for them, but on his journey over his ship is attacked and he is killed. After his death the girl, Miss Buttercup decides to marry the prince, since his father the king is dying and he is in need of a princess. She mary's him on one condition that she will not love him because she will never love again. But after she is kidnapped by a sicilian, a spaniard, and a giant turk a man dressed in all black comes out of nowhere to save her. After scaling the largest cliff, defeating the best swordsman in the world Inigo montoya, knocking out the biggest man, and outsmarting a mind reading sicilian, the man in back finally gets to the princess. Only to be shoved down a ravine, then she jumps after him after …show more content…
This is shown by westley at a few times throughout the story. The biggest one being when he is climbing the cliffs of insanity, he started the climb with a rope climbing the largest cliffs around which was a huge problem to start. The problem gets even bigger when they cut the rope and he is left to climb it without a rope but he finds his own way to climb and make it up. These problems come up all the time is sports. One time I had a big problem was while wrestling. One of my wrestling matches I was down by 10 point and I was wrestling a guy that was older and had been wrestling for a lot longer than I had been but besides being down by 10 I still won by overcoming that problem and pinning the guy i was wrestling. Don't be afraid or intimidated by your problems just overcome them no matter how

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