The Once and Future King - "The Queen of Air and Darkness".

The second book of The Once and Future King kind of baffled me. In the beginning I was thinking it was mostly going to be about Arthur and the war, but alot of it was Pellinore too! That was rather exciting if you ask me. Morgause, to me, seemed mentally unstable. It wasn't the fact that she boiled a cat alive, it was more her moods. Her mind changed so fast it sent my head spinning. For Example when her kids killled the unicorn for her, she barely noticed. When she did find out later, she whipped them. But later on in the story shes over come with love for her boys. Its like her meternal switch is broken, it flickers on and off. Its what we would call mentally unstable.

I agree and disagree with The Round Table. I agree that there should be honest people only fighting for the rights of others, but how do you know that they are truely honest. Its not like you could hook them up to a poloygraph test, and they can lie at the meeting when they tell of their adventures. What if they go around and dont know if they are interfearing for the good, but in their mind they think they are? Its a good idea, but flawed. I do think that thoes flaws can be fixed by taking the kids into the round table, but what about the other people that influance around them? I mean, my parents taught me not to swear, but the more I was around people swearing the more I started to swear. You could only surround those kids with people who live by the rules of the round table.


Pellinore and the Questing beast are the highlight of this reading in my perspective. I love them so much! I could just imagin whe King Pellinore got on the magic barge and they pulled out, the look on the Questing Beasts face. One thing that I found was that even though Pellinore was lovesick and everything, he has awesome friends. Alot of times when people are going through hard times, their friends just try to talk them through it. Not Sir Palomides and Sir Grummore , they built a beast costume, TWICE, just to help their friend along. I felt really bad when it back fired and then real Questing beast showed up.


The Orkney brothers were a bother. I wasn't exactly their fault, like when they beat the donkey, it was that they weren't taught anybetter. I felt horrid how they love their mother so much, and half the time they get no love in return, but still its their mother, theyll always love her until they know better. It kind of like when you kick a puppy (i haven't so this isn't from experience.) its always going to come back and lick your hand. The puppy knows no better, you are its master and you can do anything to it, it will always love you. Gareth I think is the smarter leader of the bunch really, he commands the attention when he talks and he doesn't like to be inturrupted like when he was telling the story in the beginning. Gawaine is next in the pecking order. The only reason he got the next spot is because he knew not to run his mouth and he had the rage in him to actually hurt someone. Agravaine is the last in the pecking order because he runs his mouth but has no way to defend himself. I also think that hes the one that has the least amount of hope to be taught, for lack of a better word. When they were hunting the unicorn, Gawaine and Gareth were going to back out because of the beauty of the animal, but Agravaine went on and killed it anyway. It seems to me that he cant be taught the value of life like Arthur was by Merlin.


I think that the Spancle was nasty, but interesting. The only interesting part of it is who is Morgause going to use it on?



The one last thing I want to say is that I'm rather upset that the Questing beast is no longer attached to Pellinore. I think it might be because he has found love. Maybe the Questing beast is there for people to love to chase but once the person chasing her falls in love she has to find someone else because the person chasing her no longer needs to love her. I love the Questing beast, Pellinore and the other knights so much its not even funny, they make this book worth wild .