A Knight in Shining Armor essays

A Knight in Shining Armor essays In her 1989 novel A Knight in Shining Armor, author Jude Devurax shows her readers how the power of love can overcome obstacles, and win in the struggle of good against evil. It takes a journey through two time spans showing the difference in civilizations and the importance of believing in yourself and keeping true to your dreams. A Knight in Shining Armor begins as a girl named Dougless Montgomery has taken a trip to visit the English Countryside with her boyfriend, Robert, and his daughter, Gloria. As the trip progresses she gets in a fight with her boyfriend and he abandons her in the foreign country with no money, or way of getting back to America. Being stranded at a church, she feels as if she is a failure, and leans on a nearby tomb stone crying out for her Knight in Shining Armor. Suddenly a man dressed in armor and carrying a sword appears on the scene. He is Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyke, who was executed on a charge of treason in 1564, but had somehow heard Douglesss cries. He now found himself in the year of 1988, standing next to Dougless. Dougless takes him around the new time period teaching him of all her knowledge, and helping him to understand and discover this new world he has come to live in. When he learns that he has been executed and made a fool of during his lifetime, he and Dougless try to find the answers of why he had been put to death. They embark on this journey travelling to Nicholass castles and looking into books and research, to try to discover the reasons of Nicholass unfortunate death, and of what had occurred. In this journey, they also fall in love and begin to have a relationship, in which they do not want to leave each other. Nicholas does not wish to return back to his family, wives, and life of luxury. Through this process they are never quite aware of when Nicholas will disappear just as quickly as he appeared into Dou...