This proves that this thought is changing and his way of thinking is maturing. During the novel Peter learns to take the easy way out, but at the end he learns to persevere. In the second chapter “Dawn is Dangerous”. Peter clearly states that his job is to keep watch, and he describes how he would much rather stay where he could see the others, hearing their jokes and just watching them tearing down Sir Philip Morton’s wall of preciousness. Peter was unable to ignore his desire to watch the other townsmen tearing down the wall “so after one glance to make sure that there was no one living on the road eastward-which was about as much use to the silk slipper in the snowstorm- I turned and walked back” (Geoffrey22). This chapter relates to chapter eighteen because when Peter refuses to take the easy way out and lets the secret of conspiracy against the Queen die with him. Even though Peter was wounded and the lack of food and sleep, he would overcome the weight of dragging shoes and sav the people of England from the Archery(Geoffrey201). Throughout the novel, Peter goes from taking the easy way out to even in the difficult