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— a mini analysis that i personally wrote
• on jon's conflict when he arrives at castle black
“on one hand, he is not good enough to be accepted at winterfell, but on the other hand, he is too highborn to be accepted at the night's watch.”
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his sisters arya and sansa would marry the heirs of other great houses and go south as mistress of castles of their own. but what place could a bastard hope to earn?
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— "once jon had meant to prove them wrong, to show his lord father that he could be as good and true a son as robb."
— "i must be brave, like robb, she told herself."
— "i can be as strong as robb."
— "i have to be as brave as robb."
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“val stood on the platform as still as if she had been carved of salt. she will not weep nor look away. jon wondered what ygritte would have done in her place. the women are the strong ones.”
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"gods, wolf, where have you been?" jon said when ghost stopped worrying at his forearm. "i thought you'd died on me, like robb and ygritte and all the rest. i've had no sense of you, not since i climbed the wall, not even in dreams."
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his skin cold and clammy, shivering in the darkness of his cell. ghost would leap up beside him, his warmth as comforting as daybreak. he would go back to sleep with his face pressed into the direwolf's shaggy white fur.
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ghost was the only protection jon needed; the direwolf could sniff out foes, even those who hid their enmity behind smiles.
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“you see fools in your fire, but no hint of stannis?”
“when i search for him all i see is snow.”
the same useless answer.
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