Graceling Kristin Cashore Summary
I am reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore and I am on page 204. This book is about Katsa, a Graceling in the land of the seven kingdoms. The Gracelings are a category of people who are graced with the ability to be extremely skilled at one activity. Katsa’s grace is killing, which places her under the rule and directory of her uncle Randa, the King of Middluns. He is a tyrant ruler, who sends Katsa on missions to torture wrongdoers by cutting off limbs or even killing. In defiance to Randa, Katsa started a secret council that protects innocent civilians throughout the entire seven kingdoms from their corrupt leaders. She befriends prince Po of Lienid, the island kingdom, who is at the court of Randa in hopes of discovering whereabouts
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The first prediction is that Po was right and Bitterblue’s father is not who everyone believes him to be. The king of Monsea is known as a just ruler who cares for children and is kind to small animals. Even all of Katsa’s contacts throughout all of the kingdoms, not one person believes the Monsean king capable of harmful actions. Po even thinks the king might be behind the kidnapping of his grandfather, but counter claim is why would a king kidnap his wife’s aging father? One reason why Po has doubts about his uncle is that his aunt did not originally like him. She had hesitations about him while he was courting her, and was going to deny his request for marriage. Po learns that now she will not even let him into her and her daughter’s chambers, only a handmaid is allowed. Another reason is that everyone who praises the king says the same exact words, that he is “a respectable king with kindness to injured animals and lost children” (Cashore 112). It seems quite strange for the exact words to be repeated. My second prediction is that Randa will send people after Katsa and Po to bring Katsa back to the kingdom. Randa would do this because his is very angry at her defiance to him. Katsa has not openly opposed her uncle’s orders since the first time she refused to torture a subject when she was younger. He also still thought that she was afraid of him. At the beginning of the novel Katsa explained
The first prediction is that Po was right and Bitterblue’s father is not who everyone believes him to be. The king of Monsea is known as a just ruler who cares for children and is kind to small animals. Even all of Katsa’s contacts throughout all of the kingdoms, not one person believes the Monsean king capable of harmful actions. Po even thinks the king might be behind the kidnapping of his grandfather, but counter claim is why would a king kidnap his wife’s aging father? One reason why Po has doubts about his uncle is that his aunt did not originally like him. She had hesitations about him while he was courting her, and was going to deny his request for marriage. Po learns that now she will not even let him into her and her daughter’s chambers, only a handmaid is allowed. Another reason is that everyone who praises the king says the same exact words, that he is “a respectable king with kindness to injured animals and lost children” (Cashore 112). It seems quite strange for the exact words to be repeated. My second prediction is that Randa will send people after Katsa and Po to bring Katsa back to the kingdom. Randa would do this because his is very angry at her defiance to him. Katsa has not openly opposed her uncle’s orders since the first time she refused to torture a subject when she was younger. He also still thought that she was afraid of him. At the beginning of the novel Katsa explained