A Knights Tale

A Knights Tale

Historical Fiction

In the book, A Knights Tale, a knight writes to his children the night before battle to explain the important values of life. He addresses his children with the values that all humans must know such as solitude, friendship, forgiveness, cooperation. There was no principle that was specific by race, gender, or sexuality. This is an example of well done inclusive Communication. By using principles of human life like ambitions, love, and happiness allows everyone to understand the point. The point of the knights actions are to prepare his children for the world after his death, which the battle the next morning may cause. The only way to convey this through a message would be to appeal to the very essence of someones being. By using his own life and appealing to their basic human goals, he was able to convey the proper ways to live.

Ethan Hawke

HarperCollins Publishers