The Ancient Mariner Summary Parts 1-7

Part 1: The Ancient Mariner stops a wedding guest that is on his way to the wedding celebration to tell him his own life story. The story begins out at sea, where the mariner is setting sail with a full crew. They get interupted and then afterward, compelled to listen, the guest returns to listening to the old man. They were going through the cold, and a "Christian soul" was sent to rescue them.

Part 2: After the Mariner kills the Albatross, the other sailors are angry with him, but they sail on nonetheless. As the sun became hotter, the ship and its sailors ran out of water, and there were creatures that appeared in  the water along with fires set atop the surface of the ocean. The mariner felt extreme guilt for their thirst, because of his slaying of the Albatross.

Part 3: After a long time without water, a ship began to close in on the sailors, although they could not cry for help because of their extreme thirst. The mariner sipped his own blood so that he could cry out to the ship. The ship turned out to be a ship of horror, manned by Death, who was coming to collect their souls. Death then killed all of the sailors but the mariner.

Part 4: The guest expresses his fear of the old man because of his unnaturally skinny body, and suggests he came back from the dead. The mariner assures him that the reason he is so skinny is only because of the depression he slipped into after all the death on the ship. The mariner continued his story and said that he prayed then, and the carcass fell off of his neck.

Part 5: Then The Ancient mariner fell asleep, but when he woke up, the dead sailors began to do their jobs as a silent "ghost" crew. Then a voice told him that he needs to keep praying for his sin of killing the Albatross.

Part 6: The mariner heard two voices arguing over what was driving the ship, and then all of the dead crew that haunted him disappeared but came back at a later time. Then the ship neared shore, and the Ancient Mariner noticed that there were more alive humans on shore, which relieved him.

Part 7: The hermit's singing was then overthrew by the mariners ship being instantly sank, but not before they saved the mariner. Then, compelled to tell his story to the Hermit, the mariner sat down and shared his tale. He was in extreme agony before he told it, and explained to the wedding guest that at unpredictable times he is compelled to share his story, and until he does, he is in extreme agony.