Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Literary analysis

Okay so this post is from a while ago except that the school server didn't let me post toy blog and I forgot all about it until I went thorough my notes on my iPad so here it it. Literary analysis of the stone of tears by terry goodkind.


Stone of tears

In the stone of tears by terry goodkind, Richard and Kahlan return to the mud people after killing darken rahl. Richard finds out at darken rahl was actually his father. During their stay Richard starts getting extremely bad headaches. One night three women come to them saying that the headaches are a form of magic within Richard, because he has the gift of magic. The three sisters tell him that the headaches will soon kill him unless he goes with them to a far away land and wears a special collar called a Rada'Han which will stop the headaches. Richard refuses the first offer and one of the sisters kills herself. The other sister warns that Richard will only get two more offers and after that he will die. Richard and Kahlan live their lives like nothing has happened even though the headaches continue. Weeks later the two sister return and once again Richard denies and the sister kills herself. Finally on the last visit of the remaining sister, Kahlan forces Richard to take the collar and go with the sister.

After a long journey they make it to a massive city where the sisters of the light are to train young wizards. Richard goes through his training with the sisters and finds that there are followers of the keeper hidden within the sisters of the. Light . Richard with the help of the prelate, Sister Verna and warren. Try to thwart the sisters of the dark. During his training Richard realizes he is the first war wizard to be born In thousands of years and has great power of both subtractive and addictive magic. At the end of the book Richard is released and kills a sister of the dark as the other 6 sisters run away. Richard quickly rushes to Aydidndril to save Kahlan to find out that she was executed publicly by a great wizards. Richard goes to a graveyard and weeps for his lost love. And prays that the good spirits watch over here. Suddenly the spirit of Deanna (the Mord sith who tortured Richard in the first book) takes Richard to a place between worlds and lets him talk to Kahlan. Richard finds out that Kahlan is still alive and that Zed used a massive death spell making everyone believe that the mother confessor was executed.

The theme of this novel would be to never give up and try for what you want. Richard never gave up on his love for Kahlan when he was taken to the palace of the prophets. Which gave him the drive to get away from the sisters of the light and get back to the midlands.

Characterization:

Richard is a very strong very smart man. If his fighting skills can't get him out of a sticky situation, his words and manipulative ways can.

Sister verna starts out as more or less the 'bad guy' in this story but along the journey and the training at the palace Richard and Verna become very close friends.

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