Racing down the hallway with a plastic sword in my hand and a cover hanging off of my back I shouted “All for one, and one for all!”, a motto used by the adventurous antagonist trio in my favorite book of all time, The Three Musketeers. As a child, I've always enjoyed reading classical books such as, Huckberry fin and Swiss family Robison. However, none of these classics seemed to top The Three Musketeers. I fell for the story and the writing in a big way. This book is just full of adventure which was perfect for an imaginative kid like me. The amount of adventure and thrill this book provided really blew my mind. I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, finisihing about half the books I started, but this book caught my eyes. I dare you to take the time to read this outstanding book if you haven't already had the privilege, from the moment that you begin reading the first page you will be propelled into a world of action, quests, love, and brotherhood. In the beginning of the story D'Artagnan is introduced to the three musketeers when he incidentally insulting all of them. They each challenge him to a duel because of this, but while he is dueling with one of the musketeers, the cardinal's guards threatens to arrest them because there is a law in which says there is no dueling. D'Artagnan and the musketeers then join forces and drive the guards away. D’Artagnan then becomes friends with the other two musketeers. I always found this a interesting way to start off the story because it shows that the musketeers were enemies at first but had to work together to save themselves. The primary theme featured in The Three Musketeers is between four young gentlemen devoted to the King. Their friendship allows them to combine forces and defeat evil powers that might otherwise prevail. Friendship is thus portrayed in an immensely positive light in The Three Musketeer ...the friends never argue, and they are always there to share with each other and support each other. Love takes an intensely romantic form in The Three Musketeers as the heroes typically fall in love at first sight with a beautiful woman. Beautiful women in the novel are meant to be worshipped and protected; a man proves his love for a woman with the most extravagant acts he can imagine. This is different to the way other novels resemble were love is a potential source of misery. In The Three Musketeers a woman’s love is a goal that many of the male characters work towards. D’Artagnan’s love for Constance is yet another example of how the novel uses highly romanticized, lofty ideals. D’Artagnan’s love for Constance is a very uncomplicated and one-dimensional. He wants to die for her, perform extreme acts to prove himself. But he hardly feels nervous around her, or feels conflicted or guilty for loving her. Loyalty and friendship in The Three Musketeers is rarely earned and always blindly absolute. It is also a highly respected and coveted quality. Loyalty is a prized currency in the world of The Three Musketeers, where characters must count on the loyalties of others in order to secure their own protection. Loyalty is typically demonstrated by extremely daring and life-risking acts, and the compensation is usually not commensurate. “ In fact, four men such as they were...four men devoted to one another, from their purses to their lives; four men always supporting one another, never yielding, executing singly or together the resolutions formed in common; four arms threatening the four cardinal points, or turning toward a single point...must inevitably, in open day, by mining, in the trench, by cunning, or by force, open themselves a way toward the object they wished to attain, however well it might be defended, or however distant it may seem. The only thing that astonished D’Artagnan was that his friends had never thought of this. (8.9)” It is proved that D’Artagnan feels that together, the four can achieve anything. This is shown in the rest of the novel as they overcome one obstacle after another. Their friendship is enhanced by complete generosity... they share absolutely everything.