eragon's miraculous healing

[666death666]

hey guys, is it just me or did eragon's scar that tortured him with seizures go away just in a snap, i mean yeah it was awesome but for me it just happened too quickly, i cant really explain how i feel about it but im hoping that you guys know what im talking about. i actually thought that eragon would be dieing from the seizures or somethng and Saphira would have use the "mysterious" dragon magic on eragon and that would have healed him from the seizure and taken away the scar or something like that.

what do you guys think?

[pokerandice]

It is, in one word, stupid. It was Paolini trying to get rid of his Gary Stu's problems as quickly as possible so as to continue with Eragon's amazing power.
Paolini would have been so much better off if he had made Eragon work through his seizure. This would both build the character and make the reader care somewhat. But he took the short road and completely screwed up any character development that the scar was supposed to bring.
I honestly don't really see why the scar was there.

[666death666]

yeah, but still give him some credit mean he's a young writer and his first book was made into a movie, i mean that doesn't happen every day you know, but it made the story move so thats good. All that i was saying earlier was he could have done it in a better way.

[pokerandice]

Ok, this might turn out to be one of my posts that sound really harsh but this is my opinion and I'm not going to butter it down.
Paolini was fifteen when he began Eragon, he was eighteen when he finished it. He was twenty-one when Eldest was published. Sure, Paolini is young, he is naive and he has very little real life experience (going by the fact he was home schooled and sheltered out in the middle of nowhere). Paolini's age doesn't matter. What matters is what is published. Eragon and Eldest, by literary standards, are very bad books. Had Paolini honed his skills more he could well have been a good writer. Now he is stuck in the writing style he began with because he is too arrogant to realise what's going wrong.

The book was made into a movie because the book was popular. Popularity doesn't equal quality though.

But, that's getting slightly off topic, back onto the original subject, The scar recovery made the story move. Congratulations Paolini. However, it wasn't necessarily a smart way to make the story move, for the reasons I stated earlier.

[666death666]

true, it is your opinion, and yes, VERY harsh, but still, like we both have said, paolini is a young and inexperienced writter. still he has written a wonderful story and two books, and yes they both have some flaws but then again nothing is perfect, but in time he will become a much better author. anyway we are getting off topic, i think paolini put the scar in the story to build character like poker and ice has said, but i think paolini put the scar in to show us a lesson: when alot is on the line, you can't just let a little problem stop you from reaching your goals.

[pokerandice]

Hit the nail right on the head with inexperienced. He may get better with age. Who knows? That's something we'll have to wait and see I suppose...
Through this scar thing I am getting the feeling that Paolini is one of those people who think that everything has to turn out all right in the end. Because people have to live happily ever after, right? I know it sounds stupid but I know a few people who think like this. Most have had little go wrong in their lives so far or are sheltered, but anyway. With the scar recovery, Paolini is showing his audience that Eragon doesn't need to work for anything. It's going to be given to him.

[Tindome]

I agree he does hand things over to Eragon quite easily. Also I don't really go for the whole happy ending thing all the time but the way the book has been written thus far I don't see how it could end any other way. Sad isn't it?

[pokerandice]

It's going to be a happy ending. How could Paolini let Eragon (his Mary Sue) die?
I'm getting tired of the whole happy ending thing too. That and characters that are such do-gooders that they make me angry a.k.a Eragon. I prefer characters that are Anti-heroes and endings that are unpredictable and often dark.
Tindome: If you like this Dark Fantasy than I suggest you read A Song of Ice and Fire. It's a yet-to-be-finished series by George R.R. Martin.

[ikerpenge]

I agree, that he should have left the scar longer, but I LOVE the transformation.

[pokerandice]

I don't. All it did was proceed to make Eragon more cool than everyone else.
"More beautiful than any man. More rugged than an elf."
Is it just me or is CP making Eragon the best of both worlds with no downside?