Jennifer Montgomery
8th English
4/10/17
In-class essay
Conflict in “Pendragon”
The amount of conflict in “Pendragon” is a truly sight to behold. This may be because we don't read as a narrator, but as the protagonist. Much like real life there is always very much a problem. But what do these problems suggest? Does it tell us what life is really like? Yes. Here’s why. This addition to the pendragon series introduces more conflicts at a single given time than any other book in the series. To explain how, I would have to go in depth about it, and so for a good grade I will need to do so. In this book, there is a time where bobby and his friends find out that a childhood friend of theres is actually their enemy, so they have to stop him. He goes to two territories and causes …show more content…
Only one issue is fixed in this book, also starting the longest lasting problem throughout this series. What are these issues im going on about?
Well to explain one, i would have to tell it in whole. So that’s what i’ll do.
Bobby arrives on an unfamiliar territory, awaiting orders on what to do. He is off to find the traveler of ibara, the current territory in which he is situated. On his quest, he is arrested and placed with a man, in which happens to be the traveler of ibara. The two are released and set out to find the problem of the territory, sailing across the ocean to do so. When they beach they are overrun by “flighters”, zombie like humans who are completely savage. They then find their enemy and stop his efforts by breaking rule 1: “ never mix the territories”. Upon doing this to defeat a robotic army that set out to destroy them, he sends his team and the traveler of ibara off then destroys the flume, trapping him on ibara forever.
So all in all, there is a lot of conflict in this particular book. It also raises the questions “will