Tyrion

While travelling towards the north wall, Tyrion meets Yoren a man who was on the night watch. Tyrion has realized that these night watch guys were not loyal guys, but were ones that were really just running from what they have done. Tyrion later convinces Jon that the guys on the night watch were not good guys trying to help like Jon thought. They were the lows in the society, running away from their crimes instead of facing them. Tyrion has always been different in my eyes, but I certainly think now that he was smarter than everyone perceives him as being. His views on everything makes everyone take a second look at their own thoughts. For example, Jon and the night watch, and then Tyrion sensing that there is a strange connection between Bran and his direwolve that is helping keep Bran alive. Tyrion is a part of everyone but then again he is a loner at the same time. I feel as if he has only spoke up ½ of the time when he sees something odd, and that this is only the beginning of us seeing the role he will play in this book.

Catelyn

Catelyn (pg. 58-67)

I chose the chapter Catelyn simply because I loved reading about the life and marriage between Catelyn and of the Lord Stark of Winterfell. They have an intense strong relationship to where no one is weak because they are lifting eachother up. Catelyn will do almost anything for her husband and supports him through anything and only wants the best for him. Ned (Lord Stark) is in a predicament on whether or not he should agree to the Kings terms on leaving and to stand beside him. When Catelyn receives a letter from her sister saying that Arryn was murdered by the Lannisters, great anger took upon Ned and Catelyn had no choice in supporting him to take the Kings offer. By doing so, Ned would be taking 3 of children, leaving 2 with Catelyn, which broke her heart. This chapter is very important in following the story within the book. It tells us a lot about who Catelyn and Ned are and their family, and shows the personalities and obstacles that they will later on have to face- and gives a good sense of what life was like in their time. I think the character of Ned changes drastically with the influence on his wife as well. I think bigger viewpoints this chapter could ponteinall link to would be treatment of women- only because in that time men were known to cheat on their wives, but Catelyn and Neds relationship isn’t like most Starks. And I think medieval life falls into this because the setting seems to be in a medieval time with kings and lords, etc.

Game of Thrones Chapter 7 (Arya) Summary

Arya is knitting with the others. Her knitting is of poor quality, so she briefly stops to speak to her sister next to her. They start conversing about the prince, Joffrey, and Arya catches the septa's attention. The septa comes to examine Arya's work and sees that the stitches are crooked. Arya becomes embarrassed and leaves the room, even though she knows she'll get in trouble. She goes to the covered bridge overlooking the yard where the boys are practicing fighting. She meets Jon, who is watching the practice. He comments that she she should be working on her knitting, but she wants to watch the practice too. They watch the fighting for a while, and while Arya had wanted to see Joffrey defeated in the fight, she sees him out of the fight, towards the back of the yard, surrounded by men. Later, when Arya leaves, she notices that she is on more trouble than she originally anticipated, as both her mother and the septa are waiting in her room. This chapter is important for the story because it shows some of Arya's character and how she is picked on by others, for example, "Jeyne used to call her Arya Horseface, and neigh whenever she came near." I liked this chapter because the event of the septa discovering that Arya's knit work is poor is similar to when my teacher in school did the same thing, and I became embarrassed and wanted to leave. There isn't too much violence in this chapter apart from the knight training, but this means that violence will follow, later on in the book.

Catelyn

Catelyn (pg 49-56)
Catelyn is the wife of the Lord Stark of Winterfell. In this chapter Ned is to decide whether he will accept the Kings offer to become his hand, leave the place he and his family has called home, and serve beside him. Catelyn describes their life together, it's apparent how much she cares for him and how he cares for her. She stands by him and keeps him strong; even when she is weak, Catelyn stands strong for her husband. She challenges him and will stand for what she believes in her own right. Ned doesn't puts their needs above those of the kingdom and Catelyn sometimes fails to understand this.

Catelyn's chapter is important because this viewpoint averts the path of the book. Now there's other important things to consider about their rule, as well as, the difficult but new challenges they will face, and the hope of bringing justice to the alleged murder of her dear sisters husband! Catelyn believes it is owed to her sister to seek out justice. Ned would have not known any of these speculations had it not been for the code Lysa and Catelyn created when they were young. Ned would have declined the Kings offer and left the Lady of Arryn on her own to defend her husbands honor. This chapter introduced the important role of a queen to her kingdom and also the saying "behind every great man stands a strong woman." In addition, the sacrifices a mother must make for her children, in the closing of this chapter Jon unknowingly alters the books path as well, he gave Catelyn hope in that she could still be under the protection of her beloved husband and their family won't be torn apart by the Kings request. I chose this chapter because the life of a queen is mostly a story unspoken. There is more to know about the king and not the pressures and sacrifices of the queen.

Bran

          I really loved this chapter, simply because it shows what type of people are in the book. And it introduces what type of punishment is given in such situations. The part that really got me is when they came upon the direwolves, which haven’t been spotted south of the wall in over two hundred years.  This chapter touches a little bit on the treatment of women and how the wildlings take women and carry them off to be sold. But the focus on most of the chapter is to describe the type of people they are and also a little touch of how they treat animals. The children find these, at first, five puppies and pretty much beg to keep them. The father is hesitant because these animals grow up to be so called monsters, but the children beg and even say that they know of a dog that had lost pups so she would have milk for them. These children are intimidated by their farther and know to respect him, and they do it in just the right way this time, the father allows them to keep the pups. But only after Jon related the pups to his father’s (only being his father by marriage) children, three males and two girls, even including the baby. Then when they were leaving Jon heard a cry by the mother direwolve who was dead. He had found another pup who was odd from the others, it had white fur which the others had gray, almost to look as if it were a “step child” he said the pup would be his. This chapter will stick to me, simply because I am a huge animal lover, and I can just imagine these puppies and the love these boys had for them!

Tyrion (II)

Tyrion goes to the Winterfell's library and reads about war. As he is leaving to go eat, he runs into Hound and Joff. Joff was complaining about how the wolves have been howling every night and its been bothering him. Tyrion then slaps Joff and insists that he goes and finds Lord Stark and apologizes for what happened to Bran. When Tyrion gets to breakfast he sits and talks to Cersei about how he thinks Bran and his wolf have some type of connection that is keeping him alive. I think Tyrion has more knowledge than what people credit him, and he knows that. This chapter in a way can relate to the mistreatment of people in a society. Tyrion finds it very disrespectful that Joff is talking about how annoying the wolves are instead of making sure that Bran and the rest of the Stark family is okay. That's why I believe Tyrion slapped Joff. That's also why I like this chapter. Tyrion is someone who is looked down to in this society, but he doesn't hold that over his head. He still believes in what he thinks is right and makes sure everyone knows it. 

Bran

In this chapter the old man from the Wall is found and they end up beheading him. His father Eddard, explains to Bran that he did it because that way if he couldn't bring himself to do it, then the man didn't deserve to die, but they did it out of pity. Then they find direwolves on the side of the road. They then divide them up between the siblings for them to take care of. I think this part of the book is important because it deals with justice. Justice is an always changing thing depending on society at the current time. So it was important that Eddard was the one to kill the man since he handed down the punishment himself. That way if he couldn't do it, it wasn't a just punishment. Also the direwolves are important because they haven't been seen in forever so it means a big change is coming but they don't know what. I liked this chapter because it helped reveal what kind of people the characters were and their morality. Which is good because it was much easier to hide true intentions back then as you didn't see people as often and communication was hard.