A New Land

This is an essay on themes for the book Inheritance, I'm not sure I used enough connections to the book, if I didn't please comment.

Eragon has come so far in the book Inheritance, with only one year of training this young dragon rider outsmarted Galbatorix and and changed the land of Alagasia forever. He has restored the peace within this land and discovered his true father, Brom. Eragon constantly battles Galbatorix's army and consistently advances, in Inheritance Eragon has the classic match up, the underdog, good vs. evil theme.

Christopher Paolini's Inheritance consists of many themes; Good verses evil, heroism, and many other minor themes, but consistently turns to good vs. evil throughout the entire book. As you might have guessed Eragon is the good person in Inheritance and Galbatorix is the diabolical King. With these two characters in play the whole book there was no way this couldn't have been a good vs. evil book.

Throughout Inheritance Eragon's number one goal was to overthrow Galbatorix, the ruler who has been enslaving the entire land. He is attempting to make himself indestructible, which he succeeded in doing for 286 years. He is going crazy with power, his power is coming from the Dragons souls. They are slaves forced to transfer power to him for the rest of their immortal lives. Throughout Alagasia Galbatorix has kept human slaves. As readers we obviously know this is wrong. Every organism should have a right to live their life.

Eragon and his Dragon Saphira constantly trained and battled, trying to find a way to overthrow his rule. Paolini consistently kept the desire of a better kingdom in Eragon's mind. He made it that when Eragon had his final battle with Galbatorix that you were sitting on the edge of your seat waiting anxiously reading to see how Eragon won. When Eragon overthrew Galbatorix I almost stood up cheering.

Christopher Paolini's Inheritance was a thrill racing book and is a great good vs. evil read. In Inheritance good vs. evil is used in the entire book and flows greatly in Eragon, he was the key to this book. Eragon overtook Galbatorix, restored Alagasia, and slew the most powerful man in the world, Galbatorix. Now the Land of Alagasia is free and the loyal Eragon has set them free.

Percy Jackson

In a world of chaos, where the gods of nature are clashing, the god of the underworld is releasing demons and is taking control. However, there is, but one fourteen year old boy who can resolve this madness. His name is Percy Jackson.


Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon and is powerful beyond belief, but he has yet to know how to use his powers. He has many questions to be answered, and only one person can answer them, his mom. Percy Jackson's mother knew Poseidon and gave birth to Percy. She knows everything that you need to know when it comes to the gods.


Percy's mother Sally Jackson's point of view would change the look on this book dramatically. Throughout Percy's life she loved Percy, but that was why she had to protect him. He was away all the time at different boarding schools. In her point of view she would be depressed and be missing her son and be annoyed with the forced marriage between her and her smelly husband Gabe, but when Percy stays for a summer, she a little on edge, but she is happy that Percy is now back on her side.


When  the book is in the perspective of the reader you would realize that all of Percy's problems at school weren't because he was a messed up kid. As a reader you would understand that Sally and Percy are doing the best they can and that Percy is capable beyond belief.

The Scrooge

 In this short response I'm reviewing a quote from the Christmas Carol.

"Many can't go there; and many would rather die"

"If they would rather die," said the scrooge "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

With this quote you can obviously see that Charles Dickens is trying to show us that the Scrooge is a cold blooded man; all he cares about is money. With his less than fortunate looks and his closed heart, he is the most hated man in all of the town, even dogs will lead their owners away from him. Charles Dickens is wanting you to hate him and he wants to create this character the Scrooge as evil as he can be.

Solumbum

Ready for action, I suited up for war in my normal form. These humans were no match for my fury. Killing them with ease, I also slew their cocky dogs. Our species were alien to the empire. I could see confusion in their eyes and then terror, so much terror. When Eragon took down the wall, we entered Dras- leaona and took them down with ease. After the brutal fight I returned to my owner Angela and awaited the next battle. Forming an alliance with the Varden was a great idea, but I do not think we are able to overtake the evil king Galbatorix

The Green Dragon

In the fantasy book of Inheritance Eragon and his dragon Saphira struggle to match Galbatorix and his evil ways. Eragon and Saphira are getting closer and closer to Galbatorix, but Eragon isn't sure if he can face Galbatorix face to face yet, Galbatorix has too much power. Galbatorix was able to manipulate a powerful set of dragon and rider. With two powerful people in control of the Empire Eragon is a little intimidated on his own.

If you look at the cover of Inheritance you'll notice a green dragon. In my prediction Arya an elf will become the dragon rider for this new dragon. When Arya uses magic and uses fire she emits a green flame and when Eragon uses magic and uses fire he emits a blue flame and his dragon is blue and she breathes blue fire. With Christopher Paolini's novel targeting teens, I think that he will want this book to end in a good way. With this prediction it would make it a better happy ending.

Richard Parker

Authors Note: I know you might be thinking this piece is really short, well it is, but I think it get’s the point across and explains it pretty good.

A lifeboat floats over a never ending blue abyss; it sees nothing but dark brackish water. The smell is unbearable. The four animals – an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger – stain the boat with urine and soil it with their waste, but Pi resists the smell for now. He knows that the most threatening animal underneath the tarp is ironically the one thing keeping him alive. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, the Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker and the stranded boy named Pi Patel are symbolically one.

Richard Parker embodies the natural instinct Pi is forced to use to survive. Pi was furious at the hyena when he killed the beloved Orangutan. It was at that point Richard Parker arose from his den and killed the hyena. It is not coincidence that when Pi was angry, Richard Parker went in for the kill. This example connects the two as one. When Richard Parker came up from the den he awoke the inner savage in Pi. Pi had to transform himself from a strict vegetarian to a cold hunter. Then he continued on his way killing fish, and consuming their flesh.

Pi tried to find out ways to eliminate Richard Parker, but then realized that he must keep him alive because if he were to kill him then it would be like you were killing a part of yourself. Richard Parker wasn’t a nuisance to Pi and he wasn’t a threat. Richard Parker was life.

Platypuses

As the semi-aquatic mammal known as a Platypus awkwardly propels itself through the water he searches for shrimp, larva, and worms. This duration of swimming, hunting and eating lasts as long as 10 hours. After this time period of the platypus crawls to its burrow and sleeps for 14 hours, then later when he wakes up and repeats its daily cycle.

The Platypus is a well known mammal because of its odd design and its special ability to lay eggs. This type of mammal would be classified as monotremes which are mammals who have the ability to lay eggs. In this classification there are a few other mammals with this same ability.

A Platypus is very interesting specie its features include a wide duck billed beak, webbed otter feet, a tail similar to a beaver’s and a poison barb attached to its two hind legs which only the male platypuses can use. When they are in trouble have to act quickly and hit the enemy with their poison barb. If a small mammal were to be injected with its venom, let’s say a dog, it would die of poisoning, but even though the platypus’ venom is lethal to small mammals, humans are affected, but is not enough to kill us. If you were to be injected, then the pain would last for a month.

When a platypus swims it closes its eyes. How do they know where they’re going you ask? Well, a platypus locates its prey and places around it using its electromagnetic senses. The key locator for the electromagnetism is in the skin of their beak. The beak scans the area around the platypus then sends a map of the location around it.

As we might all know that platypuses are very awkward species they walk funny, swims awkwardly and has a wide variety of strange body parts, but that’s why I chose to pick this animal. We can learn a lot of things about a platypus and we still haven’t found out everything about it. A platypus has many mysteries that still need to be unlocked, but with research there is a lot we can uncover.