The Golden Goblet Analysis

Eloise Jarvis McGraw, author of The Golden Goblet presents the story of Ranofer, an Egyptian boy who works in a gold shop. This boy lives with his half brother Gebu, who works at a stone cutting shop during the day, and when he comes home, Ranofer would mostly get beat by Gebu. At the gold shop, he has lots of friends, including Heqet, a boy about the age of Ranofer. They become great friends and make a plan to figure out what Gebu is doing suspiciously. The most important event is when Ranofer meets Heqet because then he was able to start spying on Gebu, then he found the Golden Goblet, and he ended up turning in Gebu and Wenamon.

One reason why meeting Heqet was the most important event was because it led Ranofer and Heqet start spying on Gebu and Wenamon. When they started doing that in chapter 10, Heqet said to Ranofer “I have discovered an excellent place to watch Wenamon’s house”. For instance, that was the beginning of the spying. They started spying more and more and kept finding out more secrets that Gebu and Wenamon were hiding.

The second reason why meeting Heqet was so important was because he found the Golden Goblet. Because of the spying, Ranofer started to wonder what was in the little room, but Gebu didn’t want him to
He had gone to the queen frantically trying to tell her there were tomb robbers in her parents’ tomb. He had stated that he followed the tomb robbers inside the tomb. So the queen said “You told my dwarf there are thieves in the tomb of my parents”. Ranofer had agreed with the statement, but he had to prove himself worthy to the queen and answer her question “What was the object leaning against the north was of my parents’ burial chamber?” He tried to think of what he saw, and after a long time of thinking, he says “It was your father’s oaken staff”. He ended up being right, and was rewarded what he’s been wanting, a