The Raven King Sparknotes

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Depending on where you began the story, it was about Ronan Lynch. Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven King is the fourth and final book in The Raven Cycle series. The Raven King concludes Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey the Third, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny, and Ronan Lynch’s search for a magical dead Welsh king. Out of the five young adults, Ronan Lynch’s personality is the most distinctive. He is the angriest, the most gentle, as well as the most selfless of the group. If one were to describe Ronan Lynch in one word, that word would be angry. Ronan is the type of angry that sends his peers running and made his teachers wonder where Ronan’s parents went wrong. Adam calls Ronan as “a heart attack that never stopped” (Stiefvater 114) in comparison to …show more content…
Before the events of the book series Ronan was a different person. He had an amiable disposition, which he had ended up burying deep within him after his father’s death. Adam recalls, “You know, when I first met Gansey, I couldn’t figure out why he was friends with someone like Ronan...And I asked why Gansey was even friends with him… Gansey told me that Ronan always told the truth, and the truth was the most important thing.” (Stiefvater 114) Gansey, who has known Ronan from before his father was brutally murdered, looks after the well-being of his friend because he knows that Ronan’s anger is superficial and his words have no bad intentions. Ronan’s gentle side is clearly evident to the reader when he is dreaming. He has a peculiar ability to pull items- occasionally people- from his dreams. So, it is only natural that one would assume that someone like Ronan would gravitate towards bringing back items or people that would wreak havoc among the real world. In reality, his intentions are pure. “Ronan Lynch loved to dream about light.” (Stiefvater 25) The items and people he pulls from his dreams reflect the true Ronan Lynch- the Ronan Lynch tucked away in the deepest corners of his mind- the Ronan Lynch he had given up after his father's death. He is more than his hard

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