Eddard Stark Research Paper

Eddard Stark (Ned) is the Lord of Winterfell. His wife’s name is Catelyn. They have many children such as Jon Snow (his last name is Snow because he is an iligetament child and his mother didn’t want to bring shame onto the family name), Bran, Robb, Arya, Sansa, and Rickon. Bran is about nine years old and he is a free spirit. He loves to climb. One day though as he was climbing through the city, he climbed on the wrong tower. He saw two people having a secret meeting. They spot Bran and push him out of the window falling 50 feet in the air. The fall doesn’t kill him but only paralyzes him. Catelyn is devastated by this and for like a week or so only is lying next to Bran’s bed weeping all of the time. So one day, while a building was burning, a hired assassin came into the room where Bran was (thinking that Catelyn would be gone) and tried to kill him. Since Catelyn is always next to Bran, she saw the assassin and killed him with her momma strength. She then figures out that Bran becoming paralyzed was no accident. She sees the man and the knife he was holding. She knows that a blade of this high of caliber couldn’t have been bought by a poor old bum living out on the street. She gets this idea from the way his hygiene looks that he was poor. She knows that the

Seeing that Sansa is supposed to marry Robert’s sun Joffrey, he thinks it’s a good idea. Ned and Robert are friends. Robert says that he is scared of what Joffrey was becoming. Ned thinks that it was just a phase and that he will get over it. A few chapters later, Robert dies and Joffrey becomes king of the Seven Kingdoms. He is officially sitting on the Iron Throne. Ned is scared the Joffrey will screw up the kingdoms and he suggests that a person of more experience should take the Throne. Then one of the knights (called Littlefinger) told Joffrey what Ned had said. Joffrey gets a fake confession from Ned, and executes