Реферат: Once And Future King By White Essay

Lyo-lyok talk about how the geese communicate and most everything about geese.

When Wart asks, ?Are we fighting people?? (169). Wart and Lyo-lyok get in an

argument. Lyo-lyok refuses to listen to Warts explanation to his question.

Lyo-lyok did not understand Wart?s point of view. Once Wart explains to

Lyo-lyok his situation, she then helps Wart in his understanding of the goose.

Wart learns that there is one leader to a group who is called The Admiral. He

guides them on their flight south for the winter. The Admiral receives his

position because of his knowledge of the southern migration route. He is only

elected if all the geese in the migration group agree he is capable of doing the

job. During the flight the geese obey his choices, since he is their elected

leader. But his power ends once they are back on the ground, where he is only

looked upon as a respected elder. Lyo-lyok teaches Wart about this and tells

him, ?this is how Great-uncle became an admiral? (171). Through out Wart

experiences as a goose he learns alot about why the geese are not a group that

fights within their species. Lyo-lyok tells Wart that the only reason humans

fight amounts each other is that we set boundaries and that is what causes

fighting. In the final transformation Wart visits the badger. The badger is a

great philosopher who enjoys giving scholarly commentaries, this is why Merlyn

wants this to be Warts last transformation. Merlyn explains that, ?except for

Archimedes, he is the most learned creature I know. You will like him? (183).

While Wart is visiting him, he explains a story he has written on the creation

of the animal kingdom?s hierarchy. In his commentary he explains how man

answered God?s riddle and is awarded control over the animal kingdom. The

Badger explains to Wart, in his view, that God created embryos and that the

embryos had a chance to pick out three different characteristics to change about

themselves. When man approaches God he states, ?I think that You made me in

the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourself, and that would be

rude to change? (192). This, God explains is a riddle which Man has solved. In

this lesson Wart learns that some things are better off being left alone than