Books and Music

Music, something we all have on our phone, laptops, and other doo hickeys. I have yet to meet someone who hates music. Do you know why? Music can make connections through every emotion we have. A person can find any type of music that pleases their ears, whether it be depressed grunge, angry metal rock, chillin indie music, or fast-paced techno. You can find your type of music. But not all people like reading books yet there are tons of kinds of books out there. I realize maybe some people don't have the attention span or maybe even maturity to read books, but i know a lot people that just say books are bland and boring. And my friend that is cause your reading the wrong book. Music is just like music. You just need to find the type that suits you and then you won't be able to put your book down. Heck, when i found the types of books i like instead of getting yelled at for watching to much TV i got yelled at for reading to much. So I urge you to find your book and read it.

Eragon to Lord of the Rings

Eragon and Lord of the Rings are fairly similar to each other. Both are fantasy books set in a medieval land full of magic and magical things  LOTR has Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Dragons, Tree people,and lots of other magical beings. The Inheritance cycle has Elves, Urgals, Dwarves, Dragons, Humongous bears, and lots of other magical beings. They have really similar things in each, Urgals and Orcs are both very similar as well. Now I have compared The Inheritance Cycle to Star Wars and the plots are super similar and parallel to each other. It's the same between these two except the parts similar is the content not the plot.

Overly-hypped

If you haven't noticed my blogs have all been about Eragon and the Inheritance cycle lately, and not the third book of the divergent series.Yep, I stopped reading it. Overly-hyped up books are a dime a dozen lately and I think this series is in that dozen. Now i was very found of the first book and thought it was fantastic! I would talk about with classmates and read different things about it online and that was I got hit with all the hype. People said " Oh! If i died with a book in my hand it would be Divergent I absolutely adore this series!" or " Best Book Ever!!' with smiley faces, hearts, typed-out screams, and fifty thousand exclamation points. I then started to read to second one. With a lot less enthusiasm but i got through. But the the THIRD book uh man I just can't do it, nothing in it does any justice to what I have heard people say. Now I am a guy so the lack of action and lack of basically 'dauntlessnes' makes the whole thing very bland. But, not only that its just the disappointment I had because of what everyone else said. Now you can go and yell at me because saying things are good and giving them some hype makes u ant to go read, go see it, and go listen to it. I just have to that if something is really that good just tell the person to go read it, go listen to it, go watch it; nothing more. For it is better to find the the greatness of something on your own then from someone else, let that person make their own feeling for it, whether it'd be hate or love.

Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B. comparing Eragon to Star Wars

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini is parallel to the story of the Star Wars movies. Be warned this will get nerdy. Paolini's four book series has had ridicule on it being a 'duplicate', but the series has much of its own unique characteristics that I think it is more a mere similarity in plot. The Hunger Games is an example of a duplicate and it barely gets mentioned! It is a complete copy of a book called Battle Royale, seriously read it or look it up.

Back to my topic there are abundant similarities between Star Wars and the Inheritance cycle. Here is the gist of it, in Lucas's film there is the Jedi Order they are exactly like the Dragon Riders in Paolini's series. Then both the Dragon Riders and Jedi order fall by the hands of their own that have turned evil. They both use colorful legendary weapons, by the way.There is then an evil empire that is cruel to its people. There is a resistance against that government and the main character joins it. The main character is trained in the old ways of the eradicated order by a old member who then soon dies. This is the scene where Brom dies, "'You're a Rider?' he asked incredulously. 'once upon a time that was true...in the fighting.. my young dragon was killed',"(Paolini 274). He fell just like Obi-Wan both betrayed by friends and forced into hiding. Eragon/Luke then defeat the emperor and rebuild the old order if good but fixed the problems that caused its fall. Similarities, yeah there is a crap ton and if you have read and seen both the book and movie you can really understand it. Now don't go and infer that I am saying Paolini plagiarized because he certainly didn't. While he had many similarities Paolini makes his own unique story that is fantastic in its own right. 

Diction of Christopher Paolini

Paolini the author of The Inheritance cycle has an interesting choice in diction. He was only 15 when he first started writing the series but has a very vast vocabulary. He also likes to list numbers in the old fashioned way, like two-and-forty instead of forty two. He also makes his own elfen language, dwarfen language and Urgal (kinda like giant orcs with horns and more intelligence) words. His creativity flows through the words he uses throughout  his stories. He will use a lot of elevated diction but will through in some casual depending on the scene. His choice of words can really make the battle scenes vivid and the imagery crystal clear and makes the world of Alagaesia a place you easily recognize. 

One of my favorite characters: Roran Stronghammer

I am rereading one of my favorite series The Inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini.  This series contains one of my most favorite characters. Roran Garrowsson or Roran Stronghammer. In the first book Roran is barely mentioned just that he goes off to pay so he can marry his love Katrina. In the second book he comes back and you actually read in his perspective and it goes back between his brother Eragon and him. Now in the second book Eldest his story-line is pretty crappy but gets better at the end. His story-lines in Brisingr and Inheritance are amazing. He isn't a specially trained assassin, he doesn't have the great strength or speed of an Elf, he doesn't have magical powers, he doesn't have a magical weapon. He is just a man with a beard, a hammer, and a woman he fights for. He saves his village, gets the whole village across the nation, He trains them all to fight and fight very well i might add, he wins tons of battles with strategy and strength. In one battle he defies his commander and wins the battle by killing 193 men by himself, only to be whipped fifty times for insubordination. He did what he thought was right and didn't shed a tear for any of those fifty scars.

What I like about my book

I am reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini. The Inheritance cycle series is one of my favorite series. The first book Eragon was written by Paolini when he was 15. He started right after he graduated from high school. Yeah he graduated when he was fifteen! That makes you feel really smart. Besides that, the book I think is  fantastic. The way Paolini writes is not super duper professional, some might even criticize this but I think this prevents and overly elegant and arrogant type feel you can get from some authors. I like it when i find authors with similar ways of thinking and flow of thought. It is hard to relate when an author uses every grammatical rule, every elevated word possible, every sentenced structured perfectly. It just makes them seem pretentious to me. I want real emotions and I don't mind reading a ranting run-on sentence if it is right for the mood. If you haven't read the Eragon series/Inheritance cycle I really recommend you do.