Game Of Thrones, By George R. Martin

What would happen if the most important and meaningful plot point in a story was taken out? What other plot points would not have occurred? Would anything else have happened instead? If the plot of Jon Arryn’s death, a character in the novel Game of Thrones, written by George R. R. Martin, was taken out, most of the whole story could not have been written. The whole story line of the book is based on this tragic death. If the demise of Jon Arryn was taken out of the story, then Eddard (Ned) Stark would not have been made the King’s Hand, Ned’s son, Bran, would not be paralysed from the waist down, and… To begin with, if Jon did not die, then the King,Ned Stark’s best and oldest friend, would not have traveled to Winterfell to request Eddard
Stark to be the new contemporary King’s hand. The King’s hand is the King’s assistant. They are required to do whatever the King does not want to accomplish or what he cannot accomplish for his kingdom. Ned Stark would need to do everything and anything King Robert would ask Ned to do. Since Ned agreed to the King’s offer, he was “ the Hand of the King, who was the second most important man in the Seven Kingdoms” (Martin 47). Jon Arryn was the previous Hand of the King; if he did not die, Ned would have never been offered the position. Although Eddard Stark was King Robert’s best friend, Ned only became the King’s Hand to figure out what happened to Jon Arryn and how he died so rapidly. Lady Arryn, Jon Arryn’s wife, wrote to the Starks on how she believed that Jon was murdered by the Lannisters, the Queen’s family. The Starks’ most loyal servant, Maester Luwin, believed that Ned should become the King’s Hand just to help out Lady Arryn: “Maester Luwin said, ‘The Hand of the King has great power, my lord. Power to find the truth of Lord Arryn’s death, to bring his killers to the King’s justice’” (Martin 63). Ever since Lord Arryn’s death has been speculated as a murder, Ned would do anything to figure out who murdered Jon Arryn. This would protect the rest of Lord Arryn’s family, and the King, just in case the murderers went after him. All in all, Eddard Stark was only working a very important job he does not necessarily want. He is just using the job’s power to understand what happened to Jon Arryn. Continuing on, if Jon Arryn was not horrifically murdered, then Bran Stark, Eddard Stark’s second youngest child, would not be paralysed.
Bran was a magnificent climber of the walls and towers of Winterfell. One day Bran was found on the ground, unconscious, underneath a tall tower. It was believed that he slipped and fell from that tower while climbing: “Screaming, Bran went backward out the window into empty air. Their was nothing to grab onto. The courtyard rushed up to meet him” (Martin 85). However, Bran was actually shoved from the window by Jamie Lannister, the Queen’s twin brother, because Bran found out about something he should not have known. This would not have happened if the Lannisters did not got to Winterfell with the King, but the King needed to go ask Ned about being the King’s Hand, since Jon Arryn was murdered. Because of the fall, Bran definitely fractured one or a few of his vertebrae, which caused him to lose feeling in everything waist down. He was in a coma for quite a few weeks. However, when he arose from the coma, he had no memory of the fall: “‘The child does not remember anything of the fall, or the climb that came before it,’ said Maester Luwin” (Martin 243). The Lannister twins saved themselves of an extreme secret, by shoving Bran out that window, hoping the fall would forever wound the child or kill him. This was all because of Jon Arryn’s death; it was the only reason the Lannisters were even visiting Winterfell at that
time.