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A Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver

 * A Proud Taste **
 * Wiki post #1 **
 * March. 23. 2012 **


 *  1).Elenor and Louis were lucky to find eachother at the age they were. Elenor was not betrothed earlier because of one of ther fathers crazy thoughts. Her father thought he was immortal, that he would live forever. When he realized that he would eventually die, he needed Elenor to carry on the family's land but knew that she could not do it alone and would need a husband to fend for the land. Abbot Sugar said, " I think that the fair Elenor was saved was because her father and her grandfather thought they would never die," (Konigsburg 20). This shows that Elenors family is unrealistic and cocky because they never know whats going to happen in reality. Louis was probably never betrothed at young age because his family wanted to wait and find someone very weathy to betroth him to. This shows that his family is selfish and greety. I think it was very lucky that the families were able to find each other and betroth their children so late in life. **


 *  2.) Louis and Elenors actions were extreemly effective but not always in a good way. One bad decision made by Elenor was that she decided to move from a very safe plataeu to a little valley during the crusade.Many people told her it was a bad idea but she said, "Did you see the valley?" (Konigsburg 58). So then they ended up going to the valley. Then, when Louis went back to the plataeu, no one was even there because they had all gone to the valley. The crusade was much weaker because they were all split up. Then, Louis and his men got attacked by Turks and many of the men had died and it was Elenor to blame. Elenors decision to leave the plataeu and make those men be alone, caused many of them to lose their lives. Elenor and Louis had many extreame actions in this story that really effected their life and the lives of others. **


 * A Proud taste **
 * Wiki post #2 **
 * Thursday, March 29. 2012 **


 * 1. Divine Justice. Divine justice is just another word that can mean karma. Divine Justice or Karma is likely to come around when someone does something bad, something that they shouldn't have done. In the novel, //A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver//, Geoffrey had attacted Louis' land and infested it with tons of oil and then fired flaming arrows at it causing it to light up in flames. When Geoffrey later died, Abbot Bernard says "it was divine Justice," (Konigsburg 83). Abbot Bernard was pretty much saying that Geoffrey was paying for what he had done and caused. This connects to our EQ in a very clear way. Karma could result in something good or something bad, depending on what your action is. Your actions and decisions determind your karma or Divine Justice. So watch out, because if you do something bad then Divine just ice might come around sooner or later and cause something bad to happen to you in return. **


 * 2. Elenor and Matilda Empress are both against the idea of Becket becoming the archbishop because they believe that he will serve god instead of Henry. They think that one man can not have to much power in both government and religion. When Eleanor and Henry are talking about it Eleanor says to him, "What makes you think, dear husband, that you will be able to appoint Thomas as bishop, the Pople guard him right to his appoint all bishops," (Konigsburg 112). Henry wanted Becket to become the archbishop because he had energy and was very efficient. The outcome may be that the pope will let Becket be the archbishop, but he might not. If Becket does something bad, then Henry might get blamed for appointing a bad archbishop, but he could also do something good and maybe then Henry will be reconized for making a good choice. It has different outcomes but those are two ways that the outcome might happen. **

**A Proud Taste** <span style="background-color: #878afd; color: #db0694; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Wiki Post #3** <span style="background-color: #878afd; color: #db0694; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**April, 4th, 2012** <range type="comment" id="897927"> <span style="background-color: #878afd; color: #db0694; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**1) Eleanor and King Henry had very different methods of teaching. Eleanor allowed Richard to do mostly everything on his own like collect taxes, make his desisions for himself, and plenty of other things. "Queen Eleanor introduced Richard, who was to have the Aquitaine, to her people. Richard traveled with his mother wherever she went. He took part in every ceremony. He sat by his mother when she held court and when she collected taxes. He learned everything about government at her side" (Konigsburg 139).** **King Henry, on the other hand, sent Young Henry out to run errands and do busy work instead of giving him the chance to experience what it would be like to be the king. Eleanor let Richard act as the king and experience what it was like. Their different ways of teaching had major effects on the two boys. Because of his experiece, Richard knew how to correctly rule and was very good at it. When it came time, Henry did not know what to do and became angry at his father which led to rebellion against King Henry. Young Henry watched his mother giving Richard the oppertunities to do all of these king like tasks which only mad him angrier at his father because he wished he could do these things but he was not allowed. This anger eventually led to war, father against son. This not only effected to life of Young Henry but also King Henry and his court. The ways of teaching that Eleanor and King Henry used effected their sons lives and theirs as well.**


 * <span style="background-color: #878afd; color: #db0694; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2) The rules of courtly Love have really effected the manners of men today. In the book, the courts of love had many laws. "The male must be polite, he must be neat, he must regard his lady-love as someone above earthly temptation, as someone too frail to be exposed to the roughness of life, as somone to protect, as someone who must be helped to sit at a table, as someone whose delicut ears must not hear naught words, as someone to tip ones hat to," (Konigsburg 134). I think that without some of those rules, women would be treated with much less respect. Even little things like how men hold doors for women, stand up at the table when women leave, pull out chairs for women, and other things were all influenced by the rules of courtly love. One of the rules of courtly love was that //When a lover dies a widowhood of two years is required of the survivor//. This rule does not still apply but it influenced men to wait and give some time in between reationships instead of moving on very quickly. Lots of these rules are very noticible at big, fancy events such as balls, extravigent dinners, gallas, and more. They can be noticable really anywhere that there is a polite man around. **