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Julia Wallace
Professor Ann-Marie Boylan
English 3B
25 November 2014
The Once and Future King Project: Part I
Book I - The Sword in the Stone: Merlyn Throughout Book I, I am Wart’s tutor. I am magician who lives backward in time, therefore I already know what is going to happen. As Wart’s tutor, I turn him into several different animals: a fish, a merlin, a ant, a owl, a goose, and a badger. I turn him into these specific animals to teach him lessons. When I turn Wart into a fish, I take him to the castle’s moat and heal a small fish. I heal the fish to show him that even the most insignificant creatures require and deserve help. After healing the fish, I take Wart to see the pike, who rules the moat. The pike says “There is only …show more content…
Merlyn is a magician who lives backwards in time. Merlyn turns Wart into a fish, a merlin, a ant, a owl, a goose, and a badger. The transformations into different animals help Wart see the different ways that different societies are ruled. I think the most important transformation that Merlyn turned Wart into was the badger. Merlyn turns Wart into a badger and tells him to go talk to another badger, but Wart is in a bad mood so he decides to wander before meeting with the badger. This transformation is relevant because it teaches Wart an important life lesson.
The conflict faced by the transformation into a badger is when Wart comes across a hedgehog and threatens to eat it, even though he is not hungry. The hedgehog cries to Wart to spare its life, and Wart decides he won’t. Wart eventually makes his way to the wise badger. The wise badger teaches him about how all beings began as embryos, and how God allowed each embryo to change three different things about them. Humans however, opted to stay the way they were, instead of inheriting claws or fangs. God then gave humans dominance over all animals. The wise badger teaches Wart
Julia Wallace
Professor Ann-Marie Boylan
English 3B
25 November 2014
The Once and Future King Project: Part I
Book I - The Sword in the Stone: Merlyn Throughout Book I, I am Wart’s tutor. I am magician who lives backward in time, therefore I already know what is going to happen. As Wart’s tutor, I turn him into several different animals: a fish, a merlin, a ant, a owl, a goose, and a badger. I turn him into these specific animals to teach him lessons. When I turn Wart into a fish, I take him to the castle’s moat and heal a small fish. I heal the fish to show him that even the most insignificant creatures require and deserve help. After healing the fish, I take Wart to see the pike, who rules the moat. The pike says “There is only …show more content…
Merlyn is a magician who lives backwards in time. Merlyn turns Wart into a fish, a merlin, a ant, a owl, a goose, and a badger. The transformations into different animals help Wart see the different ways that different societies are ruled. I think the most important transformation that Merlyn turned Wart into was the badger. Merlyn turns Wart into a badger and tells him to go talk to another badger, but Wart is in a bad mood so he decides to wander before meeting with the badger. This transformation is relevant because it teaches Wart an important life lesson.
The conflict faced by the transformation into a badger is when Wart comes across a hedgehog and threatens to eat it, even though he is not hungry. The hedgehog cries to Wart to spare its life, and Wart decides he won’t. Wart eventually makes his way to the wise badger. The wise badger teaches him about how all beings began as embryos, and how God allowed each embryo to change three different things about them. Humans however, opted to stay the way they were, instead of inheriting claws or fangs. God then gave humans dominance over all animals. The wise badger teaches Wart