A Knight in Shining Armor
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 Dougless's 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
Unlike the twentieth century, where if you had the money, you could buy what you wanted. Love is shown as a force that gets stronger as time progressesWhile showing the reader love can conquer everything, Deveraux also portrays two different time periods, contrasting the civilization, while demonstrating the progress made throughout the centuries. While in the twentieth century people liked more comfortable clothes. Another difference was that people, were not equal. This book shows twists and turns in a woman's journey to find her knight and shining armor. They knew that they would have to give up each other for that time, but their souls still would end up finding each other in the end, no matter what, even through somebody's else's body on a plane. Nicholas learns that Lettuce was the cause of his execution and Brazer 3he also realizes that he loves Dougless. They allow her to stay in the household because she is entertaining and has lied about her descendents and where she has come from. Dougless wanted true love, and that is what she found, her knight in shining armor. This marriage is important because it insures and secures Nicholas's family's throne and offers them the promise of future prosperity. In order to have their true love survive they needed to be able to give up in times, and in return they received. An example of this is when they both knew that after they made love, Dougless would disappear from the Brazer 515th century, and they did it anyway. People were obsessed with clothes, even spending hours planning gowns. It looked at life from many perspectives.
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