Perceval: Day 3

2) Weeping is simply part of Perceval's repentence. He is very upset when he previously hears that his mother has passed away, and now he is even more upset because he realizes that her death was his own fault. He truly did care about his mother, yet was so caught up in his own self that he did not look out for her. Now, while he has time to ponder about her on his long journey, he realizes that he truly did care and that he wishes he could have prevented her death. Also he is constantly meeting new family members, people who loved his mother for how great of a person she was; this is disconcerning to him and he is quite upset about it. He is "looking in the mirror" and realizes that he was selfish and that he must repent for causing his mothers death. The weeping is his first true sign of caring.
5) The unfinished romance is trully quite annoying, yet may be one of the greatest tricks that Chritien ever pulled. In the begining he talks about how this is going to be his greatest romance yet, that he is highly accomplished, knows what he is doing, does it well, etc. Possibly, he meant to leave it like that because it creates millions of different possbile endings that people who read the text create. He accomplished people still reading and writing about his novel thousands of years later. Perhaps he did it on purpose to make sure that this one, his best and possibly his favorite, never died out. It is also his most popular, so I believe he knew exactly what he was doing.