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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:41:14 +0100

I liked this book because it is at my reading level. The Adventures of Robin Hood is my kind of book because it has adventure like when Robin is always fighting against the king's and sheriffs men. I especially like the description in Robin's fight with Guy of Gisbourne. I also enjoyed all the shooting contests and match that Robin always won. The only parts I didn't like out of this book when Robin misses the target with King Richard just because his arrow had a torn feather on the end that made him miss. Finally the end was disappointing because Robin was killed because of the disjustice that the prioress purposed upon him. I'd give it an eight of ten.

Chapter 12: Robin Shoots His Last Arrow

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:20:35 +0100

Summary: For many years everyone stayed in the king’s service except Little John and Will Scarlet who returned home. After many long years Robin returned home after King Richard died with the new kings approval to quickly visit home. So he returned to the Sherwood forest and blew his bugle horn three times and everyone came back to the great oak tree were they swore to never go again and feast and live Sherwood forest. Which the king angry but they the rest of their days merrily in the woods. Until one day a fever seized Robin Hood and his wicked nurse prepared to slightly bleed him to relieve but instead hit an artery and as he was dying Little John gave him his bow and golden arrow which he shot and told them to bury him were it landed. They did so and his spirit of adventure lives for ever.

Main Character: Robin Hood: This character changes a lot through this chapter for he starts as a rebel against the new king and then lives the rest of his life in Sherwood then passes through his journey from life to death.

Quote:"Pleased with her ill deed she left the room, locking the door behind her." This quote shows the wickedness of the evil prioress and benine she is.

Vocab Definition:
ill: Resulting from or suggestive of evil intentions
Prioress: A nun holding an office in her convent

Chapter 11: King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:57:32 +0100

Summary: King Henry dies and good King Richard takes the throne. Robin passes by a fierce-looking and says Hello friend, the stranger gets mad and says he is Guy of Gisbourne the mass murdered coming to take Robin Hood into custody. Robin Hood challenges the stranger to the shooting contest and wins. Then deflects Guy of Gisbourne’s sword and kills him. Then King Richard comes to town and through Robin Hood’s territory so robin makes him pay thinking he’s a friar and invites him to feast with them then they a shooting contest Robin misses because of a torn feather. Then king Richard fights him for the prize and shows he’s King Richard so they bow to him and go into his service as honour guards.

Main Character: King Richard: This character progesses in the way that he just wants to pass through and give Robin some gold to get through but instead ends up feasting with Robin and Robin becomes his right hand king's men.

Quote Definition: "I have heard you pledge your life to me," This Quote shows that King Richard is trusts Robin and is very much worth working for. This is important because robin spends most of his life working for King Richard.

Vocab Definitions:
Cowl: The hood or hooded robe worn especially by a monk or friar
Joyous: Joyful, filled with joy

Chapter 10: The Chase of Robin Hood

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:26:57 +0100

Summary: Robin’s band goes home happily and the Bishop tells the king to kill Robin. Robin stops at an Inn and Richard Partington saves his life again by telling the king’s men he went other and Robin promises he’ll rewarded him. Robin is going home then he whistles with a bird and the kings men shoot arrows at him and runs away and finds his friend Sir Richard of the Lea. Who tells him there is traps everywhere and should go back and ask the queen for safety, the queen pities him and grants him safe passage with a page and he makes it back safely.

Main Character: Richard Partington: This young youth develops through the story by always being a faithful friend to Robin And his band and becomes important to the story this chapter.

Quote: "This is the second time you have saved my life." Robin said "When the time comes you will be rewarded handsomely." This quote is very important because it shows that Robin doesn't let good deeds go unrewarded and he is a good man.

Vocab Definition:
Homeward: Toward, Going or at home.
Page: A boy who acted as a knight's, queen's or king's attendant and messanger

Chapter 9: The Shooting Contest

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:56:41 +0100

Summary: Robins band keeps stealing from the rich and giving to the poor and one day the queens page Richard Partington invites Robin Hood to a shooting contest in Finsbury Fields so he agrees and they go. The queen bets to the kings that Robin Hood, Will Scarlet, Little John and Alan-a-Dale can beat his archers so he agrees and contest starts. The queens team starts out shaky but wins in the end by Robin Hood’s awesome shooting and he humbly declines the prizes. The king becomes inflamed with anger and vows revenge so warns Robin in a weird message.

Main Character: King Henry: This character has been developed from staring out promising safety for the queen's archers and then changing his mind and trying to kill them. This shows he is an inconsistent, bad king and a major poor sport

Quote: "No!" The shouted "Gilbert has hit the center three times!" This quote is impotant to the story because it shows that the king is a spoiled poor sport and acts like a small child

Vocab Definitions:
Milled: To Have moved around in churning confusion
Nocked: To fit (an arrow) to a bowstring.

Chapter 8: Robin Arranges a Wedding

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:54:27 +0100

Summary: The band of outlaws decides to get Ellen and Allan-a-Dale married that day so Robin dressed like a harpist in colourful clothes then the bride and groom come and the Robin doesn’t play but unmasks himself and says that Ellen will marry Alan not Sir Stephen their father disagree but Robin’s men leap from their hiding places and the friar marries together Ellen and Alan and make her dad give them a blessing then steals the bishop’s expensive finery and gives the heavy gold necklace to Ellen then they come back to Sherwood forest for a big feast.

Main Character: Alan-a-Dale: This character is developed through this chapter by getting married and forfilling his goal and becoming eternally happy.

Quote: "Robin beamed at the new couple" This quote shows how much Robin cares for his friends and is a good person.

Vocab Definitions:
Bishop: A spiritual supervisor or overseer
Quiver: Sack, Case or holder for (arrows) or other things

Chapter 7: Robin Seeks The Friar of the Fountain

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:37:22 +0100

Summary: Robin took his best men except Will Stutely and armoured himself and took and a good broadsword and went out to seek the Friar of Fountain of Abbey. He found a fat man at resting under a tree which he asked for wine and he gave it to him, drank it and asked him to it take him across the river to find the Friar. The friar agreed and took him across then threatened to kill him if take back so he did and on the way stole the Friar’s sword then made the Friar take him across. Half way through the river then pitched him into it and Robin called his men and friar Tuck called some dogs on robin so robin climb the nearest and then he the dogs and the Friar joined them and surprised Will Scarlet was with them.

Main Character: Friar Tuck: He is developed in the way that he started as a fat, happy, purposeless friar and he became a awesome member of Robin Hood's band and ended up being the one to marry together Alan and Ellen.

Quote: "I am a good man and would not refuse a thristy man" This shows that the Friar is a good man and will make a member of Robin's band. That's why it's so important.

Vocab Definition:
Hoodwinking: The act of deceiving or tricking
Earnest: Seriously important; demanding or receiving serious attention

Chapter 6: Robin and Alan-a-Dale

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:17:41 +0100

Summary: Robin was stiff from his drubbing by Will Scarlet and his band was getting poor and hungry. So they set out to find a rich man with a fat purse to take his money but instead they found poor Alan-a-Dale who’s beloved girlfriend is going to be forcefully married to an old man. So they befriended him and give him a feast and promise to get him married to his girlfriend and he gratefully joins them.

Main Character: Alan-a-Dale: He has developed a lot because he started broken, sad civilian and ended up a merry, rich yeoman of Robin Hood's band.

Setting: Sherwood Forest

Quote: "There I met a maiden as beautiful as she was pure and fell in love at once." This Quote shows how the importance to find her and of how much he loved Ellen.

Vocab Definition:
Glen: A small, narrow, seduced valley
Aside: On or to one side; to or at a short distance apart

Chapter 5: Robin Meets Will Scarlet

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:07:55 +0100

Summary: Robin, Little John and the tanner Arthur-a-Bland were lying on the grass to rest when a young man approached with silk stockings, a handsome sword and a large feather on his hat while smelling a yellow flower. Robin got in his way so he couldn’t pass so the stranger pulled his fine sword talked boldly and Robin insulted him and told him, to get a staff from near by thicket so he a tree right from the ground and beat Robin Hood and was going to fight the others but instead Robin Hood befriended him and he joined their band.

Main Character: Will Scarlet: He has devoloped from everyone thought he was a wimpy pansy but he showed he was strong and a much better fighter then Robin Hood which is not what they suspected.

Setting: Sherwood Forest, 1150's-1160's

Quote: "By heaven! Our master is in for a better fight than he thought." This Quote shows that Will Scarlet is a better fighter than they thought and is actually a better fighter then they thought.

Vocab Definitions:
Gaily: With showiness or showily.
Flesh: Muscular and fatty tissue.

Chapter 4: Robin Becomes a Butcher

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:27:45 +0100

Summary: After almost a year of relaxing and feasting and stealing here and there Robin grew bored. so one day he was walking down a byway and met a butcher which he paid handsomely for everything he had. Then set-up the small butcher shop in the middle of town and sold all the meat for low prices. Then befriended the sheriff and told him that he would offer him three hundred gold and silver for all of the horned beasts Robin said had. So road out to the king’s deer and tricked the sheriff they were his then the sheriff was leaving he and his men that he called took the sheriff to have a feast while taunted him. Then they took his purse of three hundred pounds of gold and sent him off.

The Main Character is the Sheriff of Nottingham: This character is developed as he gullibly believes that the butcher (Robin) has hundreds of horned beasts just because he's a good sales man and then lets Robin lead him into a trap and lets Robin steal his money.

Setting: Nottingham and Sherwood Forest

Quote: the following quote "The Sheriff's eye's actually twinkled greedily" This shows that the sheriff is a self-centered, greedy man and is gullible enough to perfectly fit into Robin's plans.

Vocab Definitions:
Rogue: A playfully mischievous person
Doffed: Removed or tipped