Crispin



=**Kelly & Jayden**=

=Section Summaries:= pgs. 1-66 in the beginning, we meet Crispin, who is called "asta's son". his mom just recently died, so he is all alone. then, he runs into the woods and he sees John Aycliffe, the steward, with a strange man. the man is explaining something secret to the steward. then, he sees Crispin, and starts chasing him. he threatens to kill him, but crispin escapes. after a few days, he tries to go back to his village and sees some men destroying his house. do, he runs back into the woods and sleeps there. a few days later, he finds the village searching for him, because he's become a wolf's head. that means he may be killed on sight, by anyone. the search party continues. while its happening, Crispin is trying to decide if he should speak to Father Quinel, the preist. after a lot of thinking, he decides to go at dark, when nobodys awake. when he goes, the preist gives him some food, and tells him why he's been declared a wolf's head. apparently, the steward claims Crispin broke into his house and stole his money. then, the preist told him to run to a town where he could gain his liberties. so he did. but while he was running, he decided to see the preist again because he wil tell him something about his dead father. but when he goes he is led into a trap, and Father Quinel is killed. after he escapes, he ran until he saw something flying around in the air on a cross, a little above his head. it turns out to be a dead man. his face was green and moldy, one of his eyes was popping out, the other gone. his clothes wre nothing but filthy rags, and crows were eating off his arms. Crispin thought it was a sign, a sign of death. so he prayed, and walked off. days later, he comes to a village. he is very excited to finally see humans alive. he runs in, but figures out that its destroyed. then, he hears a voice coming from the church. it turns out to be a man. while the man is singing, he notices Crispin. He tells him to come in and have some food.
 * ~ Round ||~ Text Section: ||~ Post Due: ||~ Person Posting: ||~ Response Post Due: ||~ Person Responding: ||~ Follow-up Post Due: ||~ Person Following-up: ||
 * = 1 || 1-66 || Feb. 21 || Jayden || Feb. 24 || Kelly || Feb. 28 || Jayden ||
 * = 2 || 67-133 || Feb. 28 || Kelly || Mar. 3 || Jayden || Mar. 7 || Kelly ||
 * = 3 || 134-200 || Mar. 7 || Jayden || Mar. 10 || Kelly || Mar. 14 || Jayden ||
 * = 4 || 201-end || Mar. 14 || Kelly || Mar. 17 || Jayden || Mar. 21 || Kelly ||

pgs.67-133 Crispin goes over to the man and tries to get some food, but he grabs him by the arm and is forced to become the mans servant. then the two leave the village and Crispin learns the mans name, Bear. so they traveled together in the woods, and Bear teaches Crispin how to play the recorder, and Crispin tells Bear that he is a wolfs head and that his steward, John Aycliffe is trying to kill him. then they reach a village, and Crispin starts playing his recorder, while Bear sings, juggles, and dances. Crispin takes off Bear's hat and walks around the crowd, collecting pennies. then Bear takes a man with an eyepatche's mazer and starts juggling it. the man got very angry and demanded it back. but Bear wouldn't. after they finished their performance, they went to the church and talked to the preist. then they danced and played music out of the village, and left the town.

pgs134-200 Bear teaches Crispin how to use weapons because he is a wolfs head and if they split up he can defend himself. Crispin learnd how to use a bow and a sword and a dagger. They find a bar called the green man and Bear used to go there a lot so he was welcomed in by a lady named Widow. She showed them to a room upstairs called Solcistice. When they went inside Bear showed Crispin a secret door on the wall by hitting boards to make them go loose. Bear told Crispin that if someone tried to break in they could hide in that secret door because they were staying in the Solcistice room together. then Bear goes downstairs and Crispin sneaks out. He wanted to see everything in Great Wexly. He found a big church where he spotted Joyn Aycliff inside with five other men who saw him and chased him and finally caught him in a dark aley. Crispin was caught and tied with rope but he broke free by moving his head and kicking the man that was holding him. Then he ran until dusk. Then Bear finds him in the streets and takes him back to the green man and goes to bed. the next day Crispin helps the Widow with some stuff because there was alot of people at the bar and he helped cook the food. One time when he was baking a pie he dropped it so he ate the whole thing! Then after Bear had a meeting with John Ball I think. It was private business. To be continued.

pgs 201-262 While John Ball and Bear were talking some soldiers walked down the street to where they were talking and Crispin noticed them and yelled to Bear with a warning. Bear started lifting everyone over a fence to escape from the soldiers. Bear didn't make it over and was captured by the soldiers and was brought back to Lady Furnivle's tower. before Bear got captured John Ball told Bear that they would meet again at the White Stag so Crispin went there that night and told John Ball that Bear was captured by the soldiers and he needed someone to guide him to Lady Furnivle's tower so that he could save Bear and finally leave Great Wexly. While Crispin was searching for Bear he ran into John Aycliffe and John Aycliffe went to call for his knights and Crispin jumped on his back and sliced his neck but didn't cut his head off. He just injured him. After that Crispin and John Aycliffe both made an oath. John Aycliffes was that he would let Crispin and Bear leave Great Wexly and Crispins was that he would give John Aycliffe his cross of lead because Crispin was the son of Lord Furnivle and John Aycliffe did not want anyone else to know. So John Aycliffe takes Crispin to Bear and at one point they were surrounded by John Aycliffe's knights but John Aycliffe told them to stand down because of the oath he had made with Crispin. when Crispin and Bear get to the gates at Great Wexly with John Aycliffe and his knights with him, John Aycliffe betrays them and tries to kill them. Bear stands up and fights John Aycliffe along with Crispin and at one point Bear gets a hold of John Aycliffe and lifts him over his head and throws him at his knights that are surrounding them with their swords out. John Aycliffe got a lot of swords through his body and died. Then Crispin puts his cross of lead in the hands of John Aycliffe's dead body. Bear and Crispin left Great Wexly right away and played the flute and recorder and juggled. The end.

Vocabulary pg.21 implore: to call upon in supplication pg.27 boast: to puff one up in speech pg.112 emblazoned:to describe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices pg. 127 dexerity:mental skill or quickness pg. 150 Crannies: a small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc pg. 200 Parliaments: an offcial or formal conference or councel, usually concerned with government or public affairs pg. 227 Reluctant: unwilling. struggling in opposition pg. 226 Alcove: a recess or small room adjacent to or opening out of a room