Differences of Perception/Society's Thick Skull

1 AGOT Prologue: Gared can't convince Waymar to head back.

3 AGOT Catelyn I: "Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all" 25 Ned says of The Others.

14 AGOT Tyrion II: In the south, the Wall is thought of as nothing more than a prison. In the north, it's a garrison against wildling raiders.

16 AGOT Sansa I: Sansa is applled that Arya will talk to and make friends with anybody.

17 AGOT Eddard III: When Ned looks around the hall at Darry, he sees Lannister men, his own, and men of Darry. The Darry's remain impartial due to deference to the crown.

24 AGOT Daenerys III: Irri & Jhiqui laugh at Doreah's story about a secon moon hatching dragons, even going so afr as to say dragons are terrible monsters before Dany whose house has a dragon sigil. When Viserys is insolent, Jhogo would kill him and Qaro would at least take an ear, but Dany won't think of it.

25 AGOT Bran IV: Maester Lewin says the children of the forest havebeen gone for thousands of years. Yoren says that might be true down here but up past the Wall, who's to say?

32 AGOT Tyrion IV: "The Dothraki like horse more than beef or pork. They also leave deformed children out to die."

43 AGOT Tyrion VI: The Stone Crows see themselves as owning the goat Bronn caught and everything both men have on them because it's their mountain. This is similar to the way lords see things. It's like they seize Tyrion and Bronn for poaching, except their rationale is different.

44 AGOT Eddard XI: Ser Loras offers to go in Lord Stark's stead to bring justice to The Mountain, never thinking he might be refused, a public humiliation. Sansa can't see a single reason for Loras's exclusion while Ned projects his own vengeful feelings onto Loras.

57 AGOT Tyrion VII: When Kevan demands to know why the mountain clans have intruded on their war council, Conn says "We are free men, and free men by right sit on all war councils." 615

62 AGOT Daenerys VII: When Dany sees thousands of sheep downed by arrows, she thinks "no man of Drogo's khalasar would be such a fool as to waste his arrows on sheep whn there were shepherds yet to kill." 665 Later, Drogo says these lamb men had settled on the Dothraki Sea, where no sheep are permitted. Dany was not fully informed of the Dothrki policy on shepherds.

65 AGOT Daenerys VIII: The Dothraki judge Dany for working bloodmagic on their khal.

67 AGOT Bran VII: Maester Luwin, trained at the Citadel in Oldtown, has one set of fact while Osha, born north of the Wall, has another.

73 AGOT Daenerys X: When Dany first offers her khas promotions to bloodriders as she elevates herself to khal, they all refuse her perfunctorily. Their culture can't consider a woman a leader. It is only after her demonstration with Drogo's funeral pyre and her hathcing of dragons that they change their minds and acknowledge her strength.

84 ACOK 11 Davos I: Davos warns Stannis not to press R'hllor on the Westerosi iof he's to be accepted as king. 161

85 ACOK 12 Theon I: The iron islands' Old Way is very different than that of the north.

86 ACOK 13 Daenerys I: The red waste makes Dany harden against the weak who die, so as to not let their deaths instill such grief she weakens too. Jhiqui advises they shun Vaes Tolorro as a godless place "it is known." 194. But Dany just sees it as a city sacked by the Dothraki.

87 ACOK 14 Jon II: Mormont wishes he'd thought to question the wildlings sooner. Why do they burn their dead? Why are their bones and ashes in the mouth of the weirwood at Whitetree?

89 ACOK 16 Tyrion III: Littlefinger says "...in my experience, the more bizarre and shocking a tale the more apt it is to be repeated" 231 "Most of them believe that if a woman eats rabbit while pregnant, her child will be born with long floppy ears."

95 ACOK 22 Bran III: The Reeds are Crannogmen from the Neck. Their ways are foreign to Bran. "It was said they were a cowardly people who fought with poisoned weapons and preferred to hide from foes rather than face them in open battle."329 The Walders immediately disparage them as foreigners, saying their teeth must be green, despite being neighbors.

97 ACOK 24 Jon III: "So this is a wildling. Jon remembered Old Nan's tales of the savage folk who drank blood from human skulls. Craster seemed to be drinking a thin yellow beer from a chipped stone cup." 360

98 ACOK 25 Theon II: Asha tries to introduce Theon to the idea that the shipwright is the most important man in town and true Prince of the Iron Islands.

101 ACOK 28 Daenerys II: Entering magnificent Qarth, Dany wonders what her bloodriders see. Only plunder?

102 ACOK 29 Bran IV: Bran thinks about various differences between the Reeds and how things are at Winterfell. Maester Luwin believes magic is nonsense.

109 ACOK 36 Bran V: Jojen tells Bran he is a warg and that he mujst keep this a secret, for wargs are reviled.

110 ACOK 37 Tyrion VIII: Regarding the mystery of who killed Renly, Varys says "Too many answers are the same as no answer." 528

111ACOK 38 Theon III: Theon does not like the Old Way. It's true he's become a greenlander. The Wild Hares and their song are tragic to him, though he recognizes their foolishness.

114 ACOK 41 Daenerys III: "The Qartheen wept often and easily; it was considered a mark of the civilized man." 576

125 ACOK 52 Jon VI: Ygritte explains that it's all in where you're standing whether Bael was a raider and a rapist or a great strategist.

132 ACOK 59 Davos III: Davos notices that the vainglorious contempt for caution as craven, adopted by the Lords of Westeros, creates a culture of stupidity. Worst of all, these armored commanders do not face as much danger as the men whose lives they throw away.

139 ACOK 66 Sansa VIII: The awards ceremony is a public display intended to weave the fabric of society. Nobles are made and unmade, Sansa is set aside for Margaery, reasons given, authority asserted, reality established.

140 ACOK 67 Theon VI: Theon says "The Dothraki believe the stars are spirits of the valiant dead." Black Lorren frowns and says "Savages believe all manner of foolish thigs." 927

142 ACOK 69 Jon VIII: Ygritte points out wildlings accept wargs. 954

This theme tapers off at the end of A Clash of Kings.