Final independent book blog for Brisingr

Comment on the perspective from which the book is told and how the author's choice affects your relationship with the book's content.

      The perspective that the book is told from changes constantly throughout the book. Sometimes the book is told from Eragon's point of view and how he feels about stuff or sometimes it's told from another character's point of view, such as Saphira. At times it feels like your a character in the book because you are witnessing things as they happen, as they occur. This makes me feel slightly disoriented. I also feel disoriented when one chapter is being told from Eragon's point of view and he's dealing with one thing on one side of the country away from all of the other characters, but then the next chapter is being told from Saphira's point of view, as she's on the other side of the map with all of the other characters that are on the Varden's side and then she's dealing with all of these different things than what Eragon is dealing with. It can get really confusing. But then again, having to go back through the book to do all of those book blogs made me take notice what was happening in the book and analyze it from a different point of view. So in other words, while I was reading the book it was slightly disorienting to have the point of view changing so much but it helped to go back and analyze the book for the book blogs (doing this helped put things into perspective). After going back and analyzing the text, it makes sense that Paolini would write the book this way. He wrote the book this way so that the reader could know what was going on with the other characters in the book. Thing is whatever is usually going on with the other characters (in other words not the main character, Eragon), is usually not very exciting. Interesting maybe for some cases, such as Saphira, but whenever Paolini would go to another character and tell the story from the point of view of that character, sometimes it would be very boring when compared to Eragon. Wonder if there was another reason he wrote the book this way? Maybe to change up the style or something? Something different?      

-katthegreat08