The Golden Goblet By Eloise Jarvis Mcgraw

In the novel “ The Golden Goblet” by Eloise Jarvis McGraw tells about an Egyptian boy named Ranofer. The book is about how Ranofer is abused by his half brother Gebu and Ranofer finds a stolen golden goblet from a Pharaoh's tomb in Gebu’s room, so Ranofer tries to catch him in the act stealing and Ranofer does. In the end he get’s what he asked for in life. The most important event in the novel was Ranofer meeting his friend Heqet and an old man that Heqet and Ranofer call the ancient after stone cutting because it leads up to Ranofer finding the goblet, having a chance to be the apprentice of Zau the master goldsmith, and Ranofer got what he desired most in life.

The first reason to support my claim is that from Heqet and Ranofer spying on a Gebu Ranofer found out he had stolen a goblet. In chapter 10 page 167 Ranofer thinks “Gebu had robbed a tomb. There was no explanation”. I used this quote because ranofer and Heqet would not have found the goblet if they did not meet because they came up with the plan.

My evidence from the book comes from chapter 8 page 122 and it says that Heqet told Ranofer he needed to designs “One of Zau’s designs”. This quote supports my claim because since Heqet and Ranofer went to go get Zau’s designs he offered Ranofer a free