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Probably. He likes to do contrast stuff. If you read Elantris, it's in basically ever page at least once, if you look for it. Also, Jasnah is indeed Chuck Norris.

This is the most exciting theory I've read here, I think.

My response to this is that Lerasium requires energy. Once the Lerasium is burned, then the power is gone into the person's sDNA. Mists, on the other hand, spend a little bit of energy to get you to use what you already have inside of you. So mists don't require nearly as much energy because they are working with what you already have rather than dumping all their energy into you (like Vin). EDIT- 1000th post! But that's not nearly as important as a number that's coming up very soon....

On the contrary, she has been brought up to believe the world and everyone is ruthless, and that is how everything should be. That's what he likes about Elend - he is not ruthless, and yet he is kind to her. She would like to despise him at first, but she - she finds out she can't. Because he cares. Because her world is upside-down. Reen said nobody could be trusted, Kelsier proved otherwise. If she can question that very 'truth' of her universe, she can question anything. Including her own way of being. Elend is so different from the people from the slums. She fascinates him. And she can't be indifferent to that. Now, to the first you said - that's human nature of the very same characters. We, as human beings, always strife about what is 'good' and what is 'bad', and we always try to justify things saying 'oh, but that person did that because he was bad, or crazy, or psychopatal, human nature is being good', or so. It is not Brandon forcing the issue. It's the moral of the characters themselves forcing the issue. You'll see something more interesting about it later with Sazed.

Marsh: I need to become more than just a man. Kelsier: By becoming a symbol instead? Yeah, been there, done that. Marsh: No. By nailing spikes into my body until I become a freaking MISTBORN SUPERSOLDIER, that's how. Kelsier: I held Preservation's pow- Marsh: I'M BATMAN.

My first thought was that he could be reading it by touch, but the book explicitly says he's burning tin because it's dark. Guess it's just an oversight.