For this week's blog, I chose to review Jon's second chapter. In this chapter, it starts with Jon and a few of his colleagues finding the corpse that Jon's direwolf was implied to kill. Their horses and dogs are very unnerved to be in the position that they are all in. Sam is trying to look at the dead men, but can't because he is so afraid. Ser Jeremy states that the bodies must have not been there more than a day. Unlikely, Sam points out to the other, more experienced, men that there is something wrong with the dead men; that their wrists are crusty instead of clotted. One person says to burn them, but "The Old Bear" said to bring the bodies back to the wall. Jon gets word of Ned's treason, people call Jon a traitor's bastard, and Jon attacks them. He has his weapons stripped of him and is locked up. He wakes up to dead guards and a corpse trying to kill the commander. Jon and his wolf kill the corpse with fire.
I chose this chapter because it was not only great to read, but pulled in several different pieces of the bigger story into one chapter. For example, Ned's treason is brought up into the chapter. Without this part of the story, and Jon's reaction to it, Jon may have been killed like the guards. Also, the walking corpses haven't been looked at since the prologue, which I believe makes this chapter significant. It is overall an incredibly well-constructed chapter, and is easy to write about. It also brings in the concept of zombies for our class to discuss.
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