Blacksmith

on her idea of love and relationship. This way, she hopes to protect her daughter by giving her a mercy. Florens does not at first see things this way, and struggles with family relationships in the novel, as is evident with her reaction to the blacksmith and his temporary family, including her fight with Malaik. And yet the bond that Florens and the other slaves form with the Vaarks shows that family can mean much more than blood relatives. In this sense, family can also be a symbol for…

She figured he'd need a weapon to help free his wife. What better place to find a weapon than the blacksmith, but then she remembered something important. She had no money, and her mom would definitely not be okay with this. She plotted her plan and figured out she'd sneak into the blacksmith at night and "borrow" a sword for the man to use. However on that night fate had something different planned. She snuck in through a cracked window,…

social boundaries. The lifestyles of many different characters show where they fit in society. For example, William Thatcher starts out as the stereotypical peasant with a very grotesque and lackluster lifestyle, but he changes that in the story. The blacksmith also defines a role in society, and this role is the role of women. Lastly Adhemar represents the Knightly level of the social chain. William Thatcher is a great example of social status because he represents multiple social…

A blacksmith makes many weapons for people and they can get a lot of business to from making craft weapons. The role of a blacksmith is to make tools and armoury for the public. Every once in awhile, a tool or weapon came out exactly right. The Romans wore helmets made out of leather and was later strengthened by bronze…

swords out of fire and iron, was no easy task. Blacksmiths often bought purified iron and in which they themselves then turned it to steel (Clements, 2006). Many Blacksmiths had learned from trial and error to get iron into the proper strength of steel (Clements, 2006). Although Blacksmiths had no set process for crafting steel or the weapons in which they made, they made weapons according, to the customer’s stipulations (Clements, 2006). Blacksmiths used different types of steels together while…

Metal tools and weapons were provided to the community by blacksmiths, who could construct and repair these metal tools and weapons which made them one of the most important people that held a high social status among the peasants. Blacksmiths in the Middle Ages were important figures from the perspective of knights and the peasants because of their abilities to work with metal and hold together an economy and military. Feudalism is the political system that was developed in the Middle Ages, it…

property and they also treated them that way. A woman who didn’t have a man with her wouldn’t be able to make it anywhere in the world. The woman was only seen as extensions to a man and not their own self. That is why Kate being an independent blacksmith was a far stretch for the times. She would not have been able to make her own business or run it for any amount of time. She would have had to work for a man and would have never made it past there. Skill, resolve, or hard work wouldn’t have…

Florens finally realizes that her love with the blacksmith is not going to work, and we see this through her sorrow. With this first person point of view, the reader is able to gain access to her psychological views. Florens writes this chapter in hopes that the blacksmith will one day read her words. She turns violent and dark, as he has broken her heart. Florens writes, “ My arms ache but I have need to tell…

other day. A sense of accomplishment among the Roxborough veterans forged a life time bond. During Henry 's life, a two hundred plus year family tradition of employment as blacksmiths and wheelwrights began to fade away. Lifestyle changes caused by the Industrial Revolution affected everyone, especially blacksmiths,…

show how they are treated poorly and how they cannot participate in many activities because they are not of Noble inheritance. As for gender roles, Hegleland’s tale shows how Katy’s skills are doubted by the other blacksmiths but William and his crew go to her because they need a blacksmith to repair his armor. At the first, he is unsure about…