Pagan's+Crusade

=Review and Summary of Pagan's Crusade=

Summary
__Pagan’s Crusade__ begins with a teenager named Pagan Kidrouk whose journey begins at the Templar Knights to become a scribe, or so he thinks. Instead of becoming a scribe Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland de Bram, a great leader of the European Christians. Working for Lord Roland isn’t just a job, but becomes training of warfare and protection, which Pagan needs due to all of the mistakes he has made outside the temple walls. Pagan begins to learn the rights and needs of commitment to the temple in order for their beliefs and hopes of Jerusalem’s future to prevail.

Review
I was not inspired by anything to read this book, I just was interested in the job opportunities that were available and the actual work that was done, like being a scribe or solider. But I learned about how jobs that involved knowledge of reading or writing were very significant and that many people were not taught how to do the basics like read or write a language. Pagan, who did have the knowledge to read and write was more respected by people who knew he could do that. I was surprised to learn that many people would volunteer fight for there town, know that the chances were they wouldn't come home alive. Based on what the author had said during that era Jerusalem was very much developed even though it was fiction and not true. I would not suggest Pagan’s Crusade to a 7th grader or below. The plot begins to fade throughout the book and the language of the middle ages is used to the extent that cannot be understood at times. The book just becomes words rather than a story and the adventure is lost because of the complex, and scattered plots. I personally think that this was a good story to tell but that the way it was told did not show the venture and emotions the story contains.

Review and Summary written by Daniella Davidoff