1) When Perceval is on a journey in the deserted area, he encounters three knights and ten maidens. This group reminded me a lot of the beginning of the story when the knight approaches Perceval and asks if he had seen five knights and three maidens. I think that this part in the story represents knighthood and how he is no longer in love with the thought of it. He is criticized for wearing armor on Good Friday. The group represents an image that he once respected, to one that has become a joke to him.
2) We see Perceval beginning to weep as he goes to repent to the Hermit because he is told about his mother's slow and painful death and how the only way that he could be forgiven for leaving her there is repentance. To this, Perceval agrees to take communion every day. He really looks at himself as guilty for his mother's death and takes full responsibility. He does not know how to fix what he did, and really, the whole search for the grail has been more of a self- exploration. It took him a story to realize how he took his mother and her words for granted.
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