Analysis of an Extract from "Blue Moon Rising" by Simon R.Green

The text is a fragment from the first chapter of the S.R. Green’s novel ‘Blue Moon Rising’ and it concerns an adventure of a Prince Rupert, who travels through the Tanglewood with his (not so) mighty stallion unicorn, but the danger lurks just around the corner.
The text starts with a short exposition paragraph which informs about many tales concerning ‘mighty deeds [that] were accomplished by knights in shining armour’ and confirms that ‘[t]his isn’t one of them’. This short paragraph sets the tone of whole text – it is rather unconventional and ironic view on the traditional quest of the hero. …