Becoming The Dragon

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The epic novel Becoming the Dragon by Alex Sapegin is set in the fantasy world of Ilanta where Andy Kerimov, a young boy from Earth has accidentally been teleported to via his father’s unorthodox job. Lost in a world home to not only humans, but orcs, gnomes, elves, and dragons, Andy courageously battles his way to a haven, Karegar’s Valley, after being tortured by a man named Nirel. Entering into the valley, his only way of survival is to attempt the transformation of his human self into a dragon—a reincarnation that could bring him death. Surviving the unlikely feat, Andy finds a home away from home; learning and discovering brings him to new adventures, new friends, and challenges that he will not be able to escape. I rate this book 2 …show more content…

Certain passages in the story are unnecessary. For example: “To make the best of things, the children spent the first half-hour picking up paper, plastic bags, cans, cigarette butts, and other trash from the meadow,” (Sapegin). This inclusion does not add any sort of importance to the book, instead it is uninteresting, and unneeded, and it takes away from what is actually occurring in the story. Continuing with this thought, I mentioned the choice/inclusion of certain descriptives lack in concern for the reader. For example: Sapegin included a whole section dedicated to explaining the activities Andy and his friends took on as he could no longer be around computers. Sections like these to not add to the development of the plot, instead they are unnecessary fillers that have the tendency to bore the reader. Sapegin also poorly chooses certain words. For example: “He felt his life was over and transformed almost overnight from a happy goofball to a pensive guy with an intense, piercing gaze” (Sapegin). The word goofball is too casual; this is not intentionally casual. If an author chooses to have a casual tone, they should not do so using childish words, instead, they might relate to the readers with appropriate colloquial language or by expressing ethos and/or pathos. Addressing the rest of the sentence, this image of Andy is not supported in the rest of the book and therefore should not be

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