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Chosen Answer by Jallan

Roger Lancelyn Green's book is a retelling of Arthurian legends, partly based on Sir Thomas Malory's “Le Morte d'Arthur”, but including other famous tales, and partly using Green’s own imagination. For example, in no medieval tales is Perceval the son of Gawain, as Green describes. Mordred is not the son of Morgaine the Fay in any medieval tale. That is the invention of some modern novelists. Green's nook is not a single tale with one single plot and one single plot climax. What you “need to know” doesn’t really exist. Green's book is more a group of stories set in the same continuity than a single tale with a single plot and a single climax. Perhaps you don’t care about this truth. All you want is something to pacify a teacher to allow you to get some good marks. I sympathize. But if your education explains literature by forcing everything into a single model, and only works because you are using books of notes with the supposed answers already there for you, you are being cheated. The quest of the grail is one high point in the Arthurian tale as it evolved. Another is Arthur's defeat of the Roman army. Another is Arthur’s and Mordred's final batttle. Individual tales, such as the tale of Gawain and the Green Knight have their own individual climaxes. You might discuss how Green’s book does not really entirely fit a model in which a book has a single main plot with a single climax. Lots of books don’t follow this model. Think “Huckleberry Finn” for example.

Chosen Answer by jplatt39

Um. I don't see any right now but what kind of help are you looking for? Roger Lancelyn Green's King Arthur was one of his Childrens' books. It's intended to be the kind of help you would want. Look up anything about it in the Wikipedia. They even cover the murder of Dr. Green's son, Richard Lancelyn Green.

Chosen Answer by The Dragon Reborn

try getting the cliff notes from the library

Chosen Answer by Meredith Greene

As helpful as study guides can be the entire point of assigning a book for students to read is that they read them, and overly so until they are understood. If you have a question about the content or a particular point or chapter, please post it. We are very willing to help here on Answers. In other words, questions should be the antithesis of vague.

Chosen Answer by Purdey EP

Look it up on sparknotes. com or go here. http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/page2.html