Book Analysis: The Ranger's Apprentice

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The book, The Ranger’s Apprentice, is based off of the medieval times. One knows this because they speak of people and activities such as kings, knights, and sword fighting. One can see this by viewing a detail in this book. This detail are the jobs that orphans can get. Two of those schools incl udde rangers and Battleschool. Rangers is a group of spies hwo look over every part of the 50 lands. Each one belongs to a different ranger. Battleschool is a school where knights train in order to succeed in approaching battles. They both protect the land. “When he’d applied for Battleschool, Horace had a vague notion of glittering, armor-clad knights doing battle, while lesser folk stood by and watched in awed admiration,”(Page …show more content…

The Rangers Apprentice is a good example of this because the mideval time period is being used to help the story make sense. I don’t think it would be reasonable for an author to use the present tense to write about a story about knights. It wouldn’t be suitable for the story. An example of the setting being put to good use is when the author writes about going on a quest to stop an evil monster from killing the king of the land. “Word had been already come that Morgarath was mustering his army, and the Baron had sent out messengers to assemble his own troops- both knights and men-at-arms,”(Page 213, Paragraph 5). The story wouldn’t make sense had it been set in the present tense and an evil emperor had been assembling an army for war. It was set in the mideval time period for that reason. One could believe that The Sword of Summer was set in the present tense because the past and future tense wouldn’t make sense for the story. The story’s based around the idea of a young boy, around the readers age, who goes on a mission to stop an evil wolf rom getting releases. The reason one would believe that it wouldn’t make sense to be put in the past tense or future tense is that if it were put in that tense, we wouldn’t feel a real connection to the main character. Young-adult novels are novels that we should be able to relate to and ones that we can learn from. One would believe that present tense would be the best choice for that. One could also reason that Rick Riordan is a present day author and that it wouldn’t be actual Riordan content had it been set in another tense. This is how the settings affect the

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