After reading this story, I was kind of sad. I wanted him to be a well-known, alive hero at the end. Gawaine started off as a rebel without any direction in his life so by the end I wanted him to conquer his new-found talent instead of dying to it. The theme of this story reminds me of many others that I have read. The theme is something about how confidence can make the seemingly impossible, possible. Now to the dragon, first he was, to my surprise, the fiftieth not the fifty first. I kept reading on in search of another dragon but realized that I had already passed it. The dragon is large, about 300 to 400 feet. Since he is in a meadow i suspect he is darkly colored because if he was in a shady area his scales are lighter. To be more specific his scales are dark green. Since the story said it was like a giant lizard, the dragon's body resembles and moves like one. It's on all fours with a rectangular shaped head. The neck of this dragon is longer than that of a lizard and on his feet are talons, or claws. He is old and might have a reddish or gray beard on its face and neck. He moves slowly but makes up for that in wisdom. In his mouth are sharp teeth and above that are nostrils that release steam. The dragons eyes are more gentle because he fights with his find and seems less aggressive. Overall the story wasn't as bad as some of the others. For one of the dead white authors, the Fifty-First dragon was a-okay.

     I picture this almost like a Harry Potter sort of deal. Also, I think i have heard this story somewhere before or a story like it. I picture him as being a thin boy, maybe a bit nerdy and with glasses. I think the kids at his school would all wear uniforms and the teachers at his school are treated with a lot of respect. I picture it like a football field or something like that and these drangons just happen to hang around there. It almost as if they are another race that doesnt get along with Gawaine because they talk amoung themselves but they arent so smart to be able to outsmart him so he kills them. I picture the headmaster being just like Dumbledore in Harry Potter, being wise and giving advice to help Harry (Gawaine in this case) gain the wisdom and confidence that they had the whole time but just need to let out.

This essay is full of the same old bullXXXX Iπve seen in a thousand different places beforeä in Disney movies, fairy tales and even cartoons. This is another story of a kid who has no courage or confidence in himself and with the aid of a magic word (as in this story) coin (Disneyπs Luck of the Irish) or other artifact (ie. excalibur which in some versions of the myth is not magic at all) which gives this character confidence and this character reaches its goal. The moral of the story is that one can do anything with confidenceä but this story has another moral that is never spoken of in any of these other stories of valor as the result of the ≥magic≤ of confidence. In this story the moral which is supplied is that you should give a kid confidence with ≥magic≤, it will help him to reach his potential. The extra moral given by this story is that one should not only give a kid this ≥magic≤ confidence but should avoid taking it away at all costs or you will condemn that kid to failure. While this moral is all and good it is this side of the story that has caused all sorts of rules about teasing and all that happy crap to come up, many of which have almost gotten me in a lot of trouble many times. All out of fear that the slightest jest my condemn someone to a life of failure. Really as I think about this I find that while Brounπs essay was interesting, we wouldπve been better off if heπd kept hid fat gob shut, then maybe everyone would be able to take a joke.