In humanities we just finished a book called Parzival. Parzival is a book about a boy who doesn’t know his own name. He sets out on journey to learn about the world, and goes on an amazing adventure. When we finished the book we had to write a essay about it. We learned how to do a essay but didn’t feel fully sure I was ready. Even though there was a prompt for each sentence and there was a choice of topics it seemed confusing, I like to free write and  am still working on other kinds of writing like essays there are so many thing to do and requirements that I get confused.

First we had to the come up with the thesis statement then we had to the body paragraphs which had a topic sentence, evidence, explanation, analysis then a conclusion. My thesis was Parzival goes on a journey and becomes king by his own free will because he is kind, brave, and determined. For each body paragraph we had to use one of the qualities to show how he became king. We couldn’t use the same words over and over again like for brave I had to come up with a different word for brave each time. Writing the Parzival essay was a challenge for me but I got throught it.

Here it is:

Free Will

By Ruby  

Would you be who you are without free will? Without free will everyone would just sit around and wait for fate and nothing would happen. In the book, Parzival, by Katherine Paterson, a young boy named Parzival starts to grow up not knowing about the world or even his own name, but then he chooses to go find out who he is. Parzival goes on a journey and becomes king by his own free will because he is kind, brave, and determined.

Parzival becomes king because he is caring to those around him. On page 41, after Parzival wins a battle for the kingdom, he makes sure that everyone has food instead of taking the feast he is offered. He fought a battle for a kingdom that he just came upon, then shared the feast. This shows that he is very kind. No one tells him what to do, he makes his own choices. Not only was he caring, but Parzival also never gives up.

Parzival rises to power because he’s determined. On page 49 he finds his way up Wild Mountain. He was told of a place that needed help so he was determined to be chivalrous and make things right. Parzival made his way up Wild Mountain without help but at the top it was more wild there was a mystery but there was a position he had to ask  Not only was Parzival decisive he’s adventurous.

Parzival took the throne as a result of free will and his bravery. On a lot of pages he is brave but one but on page 35 he showed his bravery. On 35 he offers to fight for a kingdom that he didn’t know. This shows that he is very brave to go fight against a king that was destroying a kingdom that he had just come upon. Without Parzival’s bravery, he never would have become king.

Parzival made lots of choices of his own free will. Without his choices he would never get anywhere or do any of the great things he did to become a great king and hero. Parzival helped many people with just being brave, kind and determined. Malala believed she could do something and she had her own qualities to help people. Malala is someone is fights for female education she wrote a book about it, and she got shot in the head and she won the Nobel Prize.