Legend of the Seeker Misrepresents
Legend of the Seeker Misrepresents
Every person can name at least one or five or ten books that have been turned into a movie or a television show. Books such as Twilight, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Of Mice and Men, Wizards First Rule, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - though that is a play- and many more. But how many of these productions actually portray the book in the fashion in which it was written. My guess is that the number is very few. People read books because they enjoy them and get excited when they find out that their favorite book is being made into a series or movies. However most of the time it is a huge let down. One such series is called Legend of the Seeker, based on the book series The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.
Authors take a lot of time, days, months, and even years, to research, and write pages, chapters and eventually entire stories. A fictional writer has two main goals. The first is to entertain the reader. The second, though many would disagree, is to actually inform the reader of things. Authors take a lot of time creating fictional places and people that will teach life lessons in the end. Goodkind is fairly straightforward about some of his lessons where as others are more, hidden. Goodkind introduces many of these lessons by introducing them as "Wizarding Rules". These are rules that every wizard should be aware of and try to follow, though that is not always possible.
There are eleven books and eleven "rules" in Goodkinds Series. The books are each between 500 and 1100 pages a piece. Each of these contain a "Wizarding Rule" as well as other life lessons. The series over all teaches tolerance, differences between people and beliefs, honestly, justice, life is not always fair or easy, and possibly the most important is that the right thing to do may not be the easiest.
Within these pages is an extremely detailed story of an ordinary woods guide, Richard Cypher, who is introduced to an entire different world. He is
Every person can name at least one or five or ten books that have been turned into a movie or a television show. Books such as Twilight, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Of Mice and Men, Wizards First Rule, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - though that is a play- and many more. But how many of these productions actually portray the book in the fashion in which it was written. My guess is that the number is very few. People read books because they enjoy them and get excited when they find out that their favorite book is being made into a series or movies. However most of the time it is a huge let down. One such series is called Legend of the Seeker, based on the book series The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.
Authors take a lot of time, days, months, and even years, to research, and write pages, chapters and eventually entire stories. A fictional writer has two main goals. The first is to entertain the reader. The second, though many would disagree, is to actually inform the reader of things. Authors take a lot of time creating fictional places and people that will teach life lessons in the end. Goodkind is fairly straightforward about some of his lessons where as others are more, hidden. Goodkind introduces many of these lessons by introducing them as "Wizarding Rules". These are rules that every wizard should be aware of and try to follow, though that is not always possible.
There are eleven books and eleven "rules" in Goodkinds Series. The books are each between 500 and 1100 pages a piece. Each of these contain a "Wizarding Rule" as well as other life lessons. The series over all teaches tolerance, differences between people and beliefs, honestly, justice, life is not always fair or easy, and possibly the most important is that the right thing to do may not be the easiest.
Within these pages is an extremely detailed story of an ordinary woods guide, Richard Cypher, who is introduced to an entire different world. He is
Cited: Goodkind, Terry. Wizard’s First Rule. New York: Tom Doherty Associates LLC, 1994. Print. Goodkind, Terry. Stone of Tears. New York: Tom Doherty Associates LLC, 1995. Print. Goodkind, Terry. Blood of the Fold. New York: Tom Doherty Associates LLC, 1996. Print. Legend of the Seeker. ABC, Auckland, New Zealand. 1, November, 2008