For this week's blog, I chose to review Arya's last chapter. In this chapter, Arya kills a pigeon, then she tries to trade it for a tart. She runs into guards who mistake her for a boy, and she plays along because she knows that they are looking for a girl. She follows a mass of people to the Great Sept, where she hears her father confess to treason against Joff. Though priests and his mother try to stop him, he sentences Ned to death. Arya tries to stop him, but a big hand comes and stops her, and shields her from seeing. See Ilyn decapitates Ned with Ice. Arya identifies the man as Yoren, and he discretely tells her to keep pretending to be a boy.
This chapter, in my opinion is the most intense in this entire novel because of Ned's death. Ned was the most noble of the "players of the game of thrones" and died fairly early in the series. I would say that if Martin is trying to make a statement through this event, it would be that the good die early when they play the "game of thrones". This chapter also has a lot of pertinence in the big picture because of it. Other than Ned dying, Joff is revealed as a truly evil character, or a textbook Lannister. I liked this chapter because of how much of a change in action there was, comparing the first half of the chapter to the last. This can also bring up the topic of capital punishment for our class.
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