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.