By Philip M.
Christopher Paolini obviously has an ability to make his readers exercise their imaginations. In his novel, Eragon, Paolini brings his reader on an unforgettable adventure. This story of a young dragon rider moving around the world as he is chased by an evil Empire makes the reader imagine some great battles and scenes.
Eragon is a hunter and farmer living in Carvahall, a small secluded village in the middle of a valley. One day, while hunting in The Spine, a nearby mountain range, he comes across a blue stone. With the suspicion it could be one valuable rock, he keeps it. However, the rock breaks open, revealing its true identity as an egg. A dragon pops out, and Eragon keeps the dragon as his own.
When his uncle is killed by the Ra’zac, assassins sent by the king, Eragon sets out with his dragon and Brom, a local wise man and story-teller, to kill the Ra’zac. Eragon learns more and more about his destiny as a dragon rider as his journey progresses.
Paolini fills this first book of a series with plenty of imagery and action scenes that keep the reader in imaginative workouts and suspense. The use of imagery is fantastic, and the way he builds suspense, along with the frequency of suspenseful scenes, truly makes the reader want to continue reading. For example, Paolini gives the reader a good understanding of Eragon’s experience while riding his dragon. The reader cannot help but to stop and imagine himself riding a dragon like Eragon.
I, after reading Eragon, have been given better understanding as to how to keep a reader in suspense, and how to make the reader be very imaginative. If that’s what you want to accomplish in your writing, immediately go to Paolini’s Eragon.
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini, Paolini International LLC 2002, 497 pages.
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