Analysis Of Crispin The Cross Of Lead

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Have you ever been on a quest or a hero? Well anyone reading Crispin The Cross of Lead

by AVI will understand how Crispin has a quest that he goes through and accomplishes. A quest

is a long search for something? The main point the author tries to convey is there is always

happiness no matter what occurs in life. Crispin is a brave kid to be going through so many

complications. People should never give up if they know that in life they would accomplish

something.

Throughout the book Crispin The Cross of Lead by Avi raises the idea that there is happiness

no matter what occurs. Crispin orphaned upon his mother’s death he is known as (Astas son) is

being forced to leave the village of stromford where he has lived. …show more content…

As it said in Crispin The Cross of Lead “the priest was

singing, “Media vita in morte sumus,” which means in the midst of life we are in death” Crispin accomplished of being a free boy of soldiers and being able to be known for being a hero and

living in freedom.

The cross of lead meaning that you don’t have to look back at flashbacks. The passage goes

directly to the point it does it in an elegant way. The way the author talks about the whole story is

linear but poetic as he teaches Crispin to play the recorder. A quote to express is “he began by

instructing me about the pipes holes the stops he called them and how to shape my mouth around

the blowing end how to shift my fingers and how to make different sounds. Reluctantly I took up

the recorder and with fingers soft as clay tried to play.” This express hoe its gets straight to the

point the author added some figurative language to make the passage flow along. Also, Crispin

name in the tittle of the book adds a meaning to it. By including his name, its letting us know …show more content…

Also, how it gives you examples of other novels and how

a quest goes. A quest consists of a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges

and trials on the way and lastly a real person to go there. These are the components that relate to

Crispin throughout the novel. The quester in Crispin is a young 13-year-old that his mother passed

away and is alone. A place to go in order to get out of stomford he must find a way to great wexly

without getting caught. The reason to go their because he has been made a wolfs head and he is

wanted dead. The challenges that he goes though he goes into church and finds a man that he now

is his servant they also see john on the way down the road they get out great wexly and find out

they are all out their looking for them. Lastly the main reason to go was because when his mother

passed a way he was charged a death ta and he was an innocent boy and didn’t pay it so john

thought of him as a wolfs head and he was basically a robber so no matter what they wanted him

dead. This is one way that this whole outline fits into Crispin’s journey. Also in the same text

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