Kathryn Schultz

History 8th grade

Essay on Fingal’s Quest

11/9/10

Fingal’s Quest

Fingal was a fatherless, poor scholar. He worked at a monastery to pay for

his education. When Fingal’s teacher, Brother Columban, moves away he is very
upset. The journey begins when Fingal sets out to find Brother Columban and to
become, like him, a monk. This was his quest, his mission, what he thought was
God’s will. He was seeking to be a monk and to be taught again by Brother
Columban again. He was also seeking his role model, Brother Columban.

Finally in Annegray, after many years of traveling and hardships Fingal finds
him in the wilderness with wolves. Fingal insists on being a monk like him but Fr.
Columban explains to him that there is a difference in earthly love and divine love,
the love and want to do God’s will. In the end Fingal agrees and doesn’t become a
monk like Brother Columban. In the end Fingal decides to start his journey over in
Bangor to find what God really wants of him. He finally let’s go of earthly love of
another to find what God’s plan for his life is.

Kathryn Schultz