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This week I started reading a novel called Parsifal's Page by Gerald Morris, which is the fourth book in the series of The Squire’s Tales. I really liked reading the other three books last summer so I decided to continue with this book for my outside reading.

I managed to read about 40 pages which covered the first two chapters. The first chapter begins with an eleven year old boy names Piers who is desperate to escape the dirty and dull labor of his father’s blacksmith shop. To his surprise, a knight shows up one day at his father’s shop announcing that he is on a quest. Piers begs to go along as the knight’s page. Amazingly, his stubborn father allows him to. However, Piers’ knight runs into several difficulties and is killed by a peasant named Parsifal. Parsifal on the other hand, is also on a quest to become a knight and do great deeds. With no other choice, Piers goes along as Parsifal’s page. Chapter two is centered on Parsifal’s education. Unlike all the other knights, Parsifal doesn’t behave or act like a knight. The two friends soon encounter Sir Gurnemains and his daughter who offer to show Parsifal the ways of the knight. But Parsifal’s education doesn’t go well and he leaves with Piers ending the second chapter.

These two chapters lay out the storyline and show how this book is filled with many journeys yet to be read. The two main characters also have very radical changes in their lives. A blacksmith’s son turns into a page and a peasant turns into a knight. Thus, I predict that this book will continue to show how even the craziest things can happen.