blakismaximus22 Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Greetings! This is my first post, so please bear with me if anything is not formatted correctly In an English course I am taking at University, we have an oppurtunity to write an analysis about a text we enjoy and are interested in. I've been devouring Sanderson's books lately, so naturally I want to do the assignment on one of his works. I was wondering what people think would be the best/ most interesting to analyze. The analysis will feature a brief summary of the text, and should focus on a theme or two that run throughout the piece (Keep in mind the paper can't be too long, ca. 1500 words). Thanks in advance to everyone who replies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jofwu Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 If it were me... Stormlight books are too big for a brief summary. I'd do Alloy of Law and talk about the different perceptions of "right and wrong" (civil law versus moral law and how the characters take those into their own hands). Something like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Maybe Mistborn, and an analysis of the results of class oppression, or The Well of Ascension and the results of revolutions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Heh, that's the problem with Brandon - you can't fit much in 1,500 words. My gut feeling is to go with the original Mistborn trilogy and look at one of the following motifs: Trust, love, and betrayal - whether it is better to implicitly trust new people, or be suspicious of everyone; whether it is better to love and risk betrayal/disappointment/rejection, or avoid love (and the potential drawbacks) altogether. Vin's views on trust change dramatically over the course of the trilogy, but most so in the first book. Belief - what are the roles of the believer and the deity in the different religions Sazed examines. Do you pray and wait for a miracle? Do you not pray and do everything on your own? How is the former different from being a lazybum, and how is the latter different from being an atheist? I feel like there is much to be said about belief and expectations, mostly considering Sazed's PoV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJester Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Well if your limited on your word count then you need one of his shorter works. Steelheart is a lot of fun, along with a lot to digest. It wouldn't take much to come up with something better than a brick made of porridge. Then there's The Rythmatists. Poor guy. (Can't think of his name right now.) Hes got the Pokémon theme song playing in his head. "I'm gonna be, the very best! Like no one ever was!" Alas. No mater how good he gets... He's worthless... Of course, if you want something a little deeper, you could look to Legion. It's a very interesting concept and there's a lot of personality in them. All of which are short and could be summarized in 1500 words or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 15 minutes ago, DarkJester said: there's a lot of personality in them Pun intended? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJester Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Of course! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegatorgirl00 Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 If you wanted something shorter, you could do The Emperor's Soul. There's a lot in there about the nature of art and beauty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Warbreaker is short and gets into (via Nightblood) the dangers of technology and giving rise to sentient machines without the proper planning of how to encode them with commands that have the desired effect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Brandon likes to do deconstructions of common tropes, so you could pull his treatment of one of those. Kelsier is a Christlike figure in many ways, but he's not a typical hero either. He's a psychopath who enjoys killing people. I could go on about the contradictions in Kelsier, but I wouldn't want to write your paper for you. Suffice to say, in the Mistborn annotations (available on Brandon's website), you can learn a lot of what goes into the books that isn't inherently obvious while you're reading them. Once you've written the paper, whatever it winds up being about, feel free to post it. I'm pretty sure I've made posts over 1500 words, so you'll fit right in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaa Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 I'll just link to what I wrote in your introduction thread: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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