Literally, chivalry means "the sum of a knight's ideal qualifications, including courtesy, generosity, bravery, and dexterity in arms (random). Chivalry has been best known since the Middle Ages; the time of knights and kings. There was even a code of chivalry known as the Chivalry Code. All knights were expected to sympathize with the elderly and orphans, never accept reward, always fight to help others, always obey authority, protect the honor of their fellow knights, fight against injustice, always keep the faith, never lie or deceive anyone, respect women. , and never refuse a challenge (Knights). The knights of the Middle Ages lived according to 12 points which were faith, charity, justice, sagacity, prudence, temperance, resolution, truth, liberality, diligence, hope and bravery (knights) . Most people today think that chivalry and honor don't exist, but in reality these things are still abundant in our lives, they just aren't taken as seriously as they used to be in the Middle Ages. If you pay attention to the films in our culture today, most of them display some sort of chivalry, honor, bravery, or loyalty. In the movie 300, it begins with messengers from the Persian army telling Sparta to bow down to the rule of King Xerxes. . Leonidas, the leader of the Spartan army, goes to the Ephors, former leper priests, to obtain authorization to go to war against Persia (Gordon). Even though Leonidas knew that the Persian army numbered thousands of soldiers, he fought with only 300 men, displaying great bravery. He knows that this is certainly a battle that no Spartan will survive, but he wants to convince the Spartan council to unite the city-states around them to fight Persia to keep his friends and family safe. family (Gordon). The knight... middle of paper ... and also risking his own life in the process. Fortunately, the hitman who killed his uncle saves him since he feels guilty for his uncle's murder (Stormbreaker). Chivalry, honor, bravery and loyalty are the main things that knights lived by and apparently we do too. Bravery and honor require courage, honesty, and integrity, while chivalry and loyalty require generosity and faithfulness (Random). Leonidas and Alex Rider showed a lot of these things. This proves that chivalry, honor, loyalty and bravery are not dead and are present in our films and literature today. Np, and Web. May 26, 2010. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Unabridged 2005. Print. Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. Walker Books, 7-3-2006. Print.