Dragonsbane Essay, Research Paper

Author-Barbara Hambly

Publisher-Balentine Books Date of Publication-1987 The

setting for Dragonsbane was in about the 1400¹s in a place

called Wyr. Jenny John and Gareth are the main characters.

Jenny is a wizard women who is always trying to advance

her skills but still isn¹t very good. John is Jenny¹s husband

and is also a dragon¹s bane, which means that he has slayed

a dragon. Gareth is a prince who¹s hero is John. And final

Zyerne, she is also a wizard women whom is the most

powerful in the land. Gareth comes up from the South to ask

of John¹s assistance in slaying a dragon that is threatening the

King¹s lands. John decides to go with him and talk to the

king. When they get there they find out that Zyerne is holding

the king under some sort of spell and using him for her

bidding. John talks to the king and gets ready to slay the

dragon. He asks Jenny to make the most powerful poisons

she can and then dips his harpoons in it. John then rides off

to slay the dragon. When the battle his over Jenny goes out

to were the battle happened and finds the dragon and John

lying in bloody pools and realizes that john is still alive. She

takes him back to camp and puts healing spells on him. She

then goes back to the dragon and sees that he is still alive to.

The dragon told her that if she healed him that he would tell

her where the books of healing were in the caves called the

deep so she could heal John. She agrees and the dragon

through telepathy shows her the way in the maze of tunnels.

It is always said to save a dragon is to slave a dragon for

life. So Jenny saved the dragon and John. Zyerne was

waiting for them to kill the dragon so she could take over the

deep because of the huge amounts of gold in them. So

Zyerne came and tried to kill the dragon and Jenny but failed

and she was killed. The dragon through all of this fell in love

with Jenny and asked her to turn into a dragon and return

with him to were the dragons lived. She decided that she

would turn into a dragon and return with him. On her way

back to were the dragons live she realized how much she

missed her husband and kids so she changed back into a

human and went home. I thought the book was very

interesting and I really enjoyed reading it. I thought it

described how each individual in the story felt very good,

like when Jenny was trying to decide weather to become a

dragon or to say a human.