In the fictional book Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Eragon, the main character finds a dark blue polished stone in the Spine, which were mountains that extended up and down one land. He does not recognize the value of the stone and decides to try to exchange it for meat as he could not hunt a doe down. Eragon, a human, goes to find information about magical ancient dragons.
The book has its exciting moments and dull moments. Eragon is the main character of the book. He supports his family with meat because he is the hunter in the beginning who spotted a doe who he chased to the Spine. Eragon is a trustworthy and honorable man. After finding the polished blue stone and losing the doe, he went to Sloan, the irritable butcher. He does not have anything in return for meat from Sloan and therefore Sloan would not offer anything in return. Sloan is pure business. Eragon offers his stone after a hard days hunting without any result. Sloan is told the stone is from the Spine and does not accept it for meat after wards. Eragon, asks for meat in return and Sloan would bargain for his own benefit. Sloan's bargain would not earn Eragon's approval as he would deny it because, "That's a miser's bargain! It must be worth at least ten times that,...Three crowns would not even buy enough meat to last a week."(pg 12) Eragon knows he needs to feed his family and is willing to talk back to the butcher. The butcher can just not give him meat for anything. Eragon also "did not want to wait until they arrived; it could be a while, and his family needed the meat now." Eragon is a strong man willing to give up his day's work and devote it to feed his family, even if it earns him a limited amount of food.
Also, as Horst bought his meat for him from the butcher, he would say to his uncle Garrow's face that "I didn't accept charity." Eragon was honorable even when helped. He offered his polished stone when Horst bought him meat to pay him back, but instead he would take Eragon's help. Eragon agreed instead of walking off with free meat.
Eragon is a strong reluctant man who has earned the right to find and possess a stone so magical with power as the polished blue stone.
I think that you should actually read the book first, then write another review.
ReplyDeleteI like the plot description but I think you should answer one of the questions. Which questions are you writing about. I think that you should actually read the book and then finish the review. Also pick a question to write about such as his purpose. Other than that, I think it is good.
ReplyDeleteI like what Colin said previoulsy I think that there's a possibility that I did the same thing in my blog posts, the bit thing about this is that Immbetting alot of people forgot actually to go ahead and put the questions on the blog. I also think that you shouldn't write your posts not in one big block but special little paragraphs or you should go ahead and use the quote button in the blogger creator section; but other than that it's good for someone who hasn't even made it to the middle of the book.
ReplyDeleteIn this, its a bit clearer as to what you are saying vic, and i think your writing about question number 8. If so i think you did a nice job of it. my additional question is that why do you say the rock is magical or special, as so far in the book you didn't mention as to why the rock was "Special" and also who is Eragon family, why is he the only one supporting them.
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