She has a complicated relationship with the church and with Merthin.
Caris is an independent woman who has a love of helping others, learning how to dye and sell wool, and learning medical practices. Ralph does whatever it takes to make sure his ambitions are realized, even if it means stepping over his family and friends. Ralph is Merthin’s brother who strives to be the best soldier he can be in order to bring honor to himself and to impress those around him. Merthin takes on the role of the builder, just like his ancestor Jack Builder, who believes in his radical new ideas to help the town, even though his elders think his ideas are too far out there.
Like “The Pillars of the Earth”, “World Without End” focuses on the growth of these characters over decades and how their lives and their hard work change the town of Kingsbridge.
They promise to keep the secret until Thomas dies, but this one act will intertwine the lives of the friends forever. These children decide one day to play in the forest near Kingsbridge, where they come across a man named Thomas and they witness a killing. Their names are Merthin, Caris, Gwenda, and Ralph. They are the descendants of the protagonists of “The Pillars of the Earth”, but they all come from different backgrounds. Follett explores how the people of Kingsbridge survived during this tumultuous time in his second book of the Kingsbridge series, “World Without End”.įollett begins his book with his main characters as children in the church that he wrote about in the first book, Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is also two centuries after the events of Ken Follett’s massively popular book, “The Pillars of the Earth”. This was a time of despair, but it was also a time where we see a shift from old traditions of the church and the state. Europe during the 14th century was full of danger, the start of a conflict that would be known as the Hundred Years’ War, and the massively destructive illness that we know today as either “the Black Death” or “the Black Plague”.
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