Kabir Thirodira 
The Lost Continent is the 11th book in the Wings of Fire series. In this book there is a hierarchy of species. Silk Wings are dragons that use their silk to build important structures. Most of them are workers and have no important status. Hive Wings are dragons that live in nice places and use Silk Wings as their servants.
Blue, a character that features in this book, adds a very unique twist as a Silk Wing. Most characters in this series are both courageous and rule breakers, but Blue is neither, largely in part due to his low Silk Wing status. His whole life he followed every rules to the tee and believed everything a Hive Wing told him. The system brought him up to be a loyal and dedicated citizen to the Hive Wings and an example of that is when his friend was mad, breaking things and Blue thought, "This is vandalism!... And destruction of Hive property! There are definitely rules about this!" (Sutherland 124)
To my surprise he did break a few rules, but only when someone important to him was in danger. The dumbed down explanation of the first rule he broke goes as follows: he ran away from home because his sister was just taken away in front of his own eyes, and he was practically forced to leave by people who wanted to keep him safe. An additional very important detail to properly display the personality of Blue is his thoughts the whole time he was escaping. He had just witnessed his sister get aggressively captured but he was still thinking about turning back. He was thinking he could turn back and all would be well, all the people that came after his sister and him would forgive him, and he could go back to his basic rule following life.
However, he didn't, and he continued to show this intriguing character arc, but it is almost forced onto him. Even after he escapes he constantly thinks about going back, but he knows he has to both rescue his sister and keep himself safe, and in the middle of the book he has to steal an extremely sacred object in exchange for the location of his sister. He has no choice but to keep going and keep breaking rules, which makes him an example of a very unique change in character.
I really like how you describe the hierarchy of the dragons and how Blue is affected by it. You have varying sentence structure and well edited paragraphs which make this easy and entertaining to read. I also enjoyed the explanation of how and why Blue's character was different from the other Silkwings.
ReplyDeleteI like how you talk about his thoughts vs. his actions. I agree that he has an interesting character arc, like he's two people in one. I also think that the society Blue lives in caused him to be the way he is, and he will probably struggle with guilt as the story goes on.
ReplyDeleteHi Kabir, I really liked this analysis of Blue as a character. I liked how you showed that the environment he was in affected who he was. I also liked how you showed his intrigue, in his mannerisms as well as his thought processes. Great blog post!
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