AliceRoseGold

Ok, thank you very much, I will probably re-read anyway, even if did find some parts of it quite non my cup of tea, I am not that much in high fantasy usually, i read a lot of non fantasy so the adjustment is a bit sharp. I am particolary interested in stromlight archive for the important place it holds and the messages it brings. I read years ago the Mistborn first era, I remember liking it.

Why this guy wants to help people all the time? What's is his internal motivation? What does it mean to him? How did get to be like that? The book is extremely long, I am at 2/3 point of it and I am getting a bit desperate. He basically has two qualities he wants to save people and he is depressed, he is also inslaved for the most duration of the book, but I am not, I wish to be able to enjoy what I am reading. Mental health problems rappresentation is the reason why I wish to read this series in the first place. For the first component of Kaladin character I gathered two possible explanations of what "saving people" could mean for him from other answers on Internet. - It is his trauma of not having been able to save his brother, but it doesn't make sense much, he expressed the desire to join the army before his brother was conscripted, always giving the same reason "save people" - what people, why save, why the military is the best way, save from who, save for what purpose. I mean what was at the base of young kaladin believes and aspirations? Even his father is not a fan of Kaladin joining the army. Later in the book it is reveled that Syl is a spawn of Honor and nobility, so I presume honor is a main component of his character and the main motivation to "save people", but I have quite a few problems with this explanation. Honor is such a complex social construct, it a code of moral conduct deriving from our experiences, our believes, religion, cultural norms, role models. Honor and nobility are not feelings, they are belives. But the problem is that regardless of the book indecent size and predominance in it of the Kaladin chapters there is very little actual information of how he came to hold this particular belive and what it means to him. Honor and duty are concepts usually related to upholding the society's norms and values, it is about God, law and order, tradition. I find the "honor" explanation of his character utterly unsatisfying, it feels more like a label applied to him and the character is forced to act upon it without any real meaning, this makes un for un infuriatingly boring and frustrating read, more than half of 1000+ pages book is dedicated to him let's not forget. But just thinking about it I came up with another possible internal motivation, one that would, at least for me make 100% sense. He wants to help people not in a rational way, not of the duty, but because he is an EMPATH, a super empath even. He must save everyone because he feels everyone's pain around he so strongly that he can't stand aside and watch. Empathy doesn't need to be rational, it doesn't need ulterior motives, it's pure instinct like we see with Kaladin actions most of the time. What are your interpretations?

I started reading the way of kings, i find it quite hard to power through even though I am convinced that this series has everything that I usually like in a book, want to understand something before deciding if giving up