A Book Review On Eragon By Christopher Paolini

This is a book review of a book that i have once read. This book goes deep into a world of evil, magic and dragons. The main character, Eragon picked up an egg that appeared in the middle of the woods. He was curious about the egg and at that time, people had no money so Eragon went to find a trader, and offered to sell the egg. Months later, Eragon hatched the egg and found out that it was actually an egg of a dragon. The dragon was then named Sephira.

There was another villager who was a storyteller, named Brom. He was skilled in the arts of wizardry and slowly began to teach Eragon the way to control and execute spells. Meanwhile, Sephira was encountering a growth spurt and was much taller then 3 humans standing atop each other. Then, Eragon met up with elves who had supernatural strength, speed and skills. They are a very discreet race and have been in hiding from the outside world. Eragon and Brom are now wanted by the Emperor and his army of monster brutes named Urgals and Kulls are in a bloodlust, hunting for Eragon, Sephira and Brom.

In their battle against Durza, a formidable elfin foe, an ally elf was poisoned and needs to be sent to Farthen Dur, a city where darwfs live. The elves quickly brought along reinforcements for the great battle that is to be fought in Farthen Dur. By then, Sephiroth had already been a full-grown dragon and Eragon and Sephira spent many years learning from another Dragon rider, learning how to communicate properly with his dragon and all the air maneuvers. Soon, Eragon befriended the elves and once, by giving a very important gift to the elven Queen, a gift was given to Eragon, causing him to have the abilities of any elves and very skillful in magic.

Returning from Duweldenvarden, the elven city, he sought about for a blacksmith to craft him a rider blade, harnessing magial properties as the metal used to create the swords were obtained from an object that had once crashed and the fragments were the strongest metal, thus crafting and indestructible and indefinitely sharp edge on the blade. The war finally broke out and atop Sephira sat Eragon, wielding his blade and with each sweep of Sephira's wings, fire broke out from her maw, roasting every single enemy and yet, they still tired out, causing the enemy archers to have a clear shot of Sephira's weak spots and thus was very very close to falling Farthen Dur, destroying the entire Empire.

The war ended and yet, the journey did not and for Eragon and his dragon. They continued on their hunt to destroy the Emperor and his fellow servents, the Razac.



My reflections

I think that this is a very good and exciting book. The determination of Eragon at the start where he just started learning to cast spells teaches us never to give up easily. At the starting, it was really really very hard for Eragon but yet, he perceived. He did not give up easily and even thought of the hardship as "fun". His way of thinking is very appropriate and i admire his courage and his encouragement for all the readers. He failed many times but yet he always stood up on his ownself. He never ever thought of giving up and always thought that there were people that were in a worse situation than him.