1. In the tale “How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw” from Howard Pyle’s book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin is first known as Robin of Locksley before he becomes an outlaw. The story of how he becomes an outlaw starts off with him traveling to Nottingham at the age of eighteen to compete in an archery competition. On his way he comes across some of the King’s foresters who were eating and getting drunk in the forest. They’re job was to protect the King’s forest and make sure no one was hunting the King’s deer. Once they spotted Robin one of them yelled to him to make fun of his bow and arrows and his age, which made Robin angry. This resulted in Robin betting the men’s best archer that he could hit a target from three hundred yards.
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In this passage from the text, we get our first look into some of the main themes of the book, starting with the social and political themes. We can see that there is a corrupt system in place, where the rich are getting richer by wrongfully taking from those with nothing. Due to this system, Robin gains the respect and support of the common people despite him being an outlaw because he is repeatedly taking from the rich and giving it back to the poor. The community support is possibly one of the biggest principles that is shown throughout the book, and is a main reason Robin is able to escape from the law. This section is a great example of Robin displaying several of the hero characteristics from Graham Seal’s The Robin Hood Principle: Folklore, History, and the Social Bandit because of his vows. Another theme that we start to see in this section is good versus evil. Robin and his men are always shown as being fair in comparison to those they steal from. We can see an example of this characterization when they are describing the way the rich take from the community and how Robin takes from the rich. In the end of this passage we also have some imagery of the forest with elements that are commonly brought up throughout the story such as the singing birds and the leaves. I believe these elements are meant to give the reader the sense that in Sherwood everything is light and happy because they are away from the corrupt
In this passage from the text, we get our first look into some of the main themes of the book, starting with the social and political themes. We can see that there is a corrupt system in place, where the rich are getting richer by wrongfully taking from those with nothing. Due to this system, Robin gains the respect and support of the common people despite him being an outlaw because he is repeatedly taking from the rich and giving it back to the poor. The community support is possibly one of the biggest principles that is shown throughout the book, and is a main reason Robin is able to escape from the law. This section is a great example of Robin displaying several of the hero characteristics from Graham Seal’s The Robin Hood Principle: Folklore, History, and the Social Bandit because of his vows. Another theme that we start to see in this section is good versus evil. Robin and his men are always shown as being fair in comparison to those they steal from. We can see an example of this characterization when they are describing the way the rich take from the community and how Robin takes from the rich. In the end of this passage we also have some imagery of the forest with elements that are commonly brought up throughout the story such as the singing birds and the leaves. I believe these elements are meant to give the reader the sense that in Sherwood everything is light and happy because they are away from the corrupt