A Game of Thrones is the first book of the ongoing a Song of Ice and Fire series. This book is told from the point-of view of eight different characters, which makes it very difficult to summarize. So I will break it down into three different stories. However, first I need to give you some of the background information about the world that a Game of Thrones is set in.
Thousands of years ago in a place now called Westeros, there lived a peaceful, isolated people, like the Native Americans before the white people came. Never have they seen war, until intruders came upon their beaches. The intruders were much more advanced and managed to wrestle control of the land and force them into the far, icy reaches of the north where they intruders built a huge wall to separate them. The settlers of the new land divided it among themselves, making kingdoms and establishing “Houses”(factions) amongst themselves. The now divided kingdom was constantly at war and the Houses were always fighting one another. Across the sea, an advanced kingdom called Valyria, flourished. They had even managed to tame dragons! Prince Aegon(of the ruling family of Valyria) saw that Westeros was ripe for the taking. He sailed over to Westeros and brought with him an army and dragons. They dominated the land taking city after city like it was nothing because, of course, they had dragons, something that Westeros had never seen. After liberating the realm, Aegon unified it under one banner and one ruling family, the Targaryens. They ruled for almost a thousand years and the dragons eventually went extinct. The other Houses, now with a common and weakened enemy, teamed up and overthrew the Targaryens.
Just after the rebellion, the book takes place. First we get to meet House Stark, a powerful and honorable House of the North. The family includes Lord Eddard, his wife Catelyn, and their sons Rob, Bran, and Rickon, and their daughters Sansa and Arya. Eddard also has a bastard son, Jon, who Catelyn...