blog#5

   A social issue in my book pendragon: The rivers of zadaa is gender discrimination. One of the other travels is Loor, she is a girl. Loor is restrained and forced to watch Bobby being beaten up by Saint Dane, who had taken the form of one of Loor's tribesmen. After this fight, Loor trains Bobby to defend himself in the training-grounds of Mooraj where Loor had learned. Bobby feels like he is not "manly" enough to be fighting alongside Loor, becasue Loor is a trained warrior and a better fighter than Bobby. Many people could relate to this where a girl is not as good as a man or vice versa. Bobby says " she was perfectly toned, with zero-body fat, she is by far stronger than me." Another social issue in this book would be body image, because she looks better and more fit she must be better than Bobby, which is not necesarilly true.