Power Of Words In The Name The Wind

Words are the essence of the soul, the beauty that surrounds us, and everything that ever was. They weave history with grace and elegance, twisting and turning through the orchestra of time, never stumbling. They have the power to open a man up and toy with his emotions. They are heroes, heretics, and heroes, but to Patrick Rothfus they are “… pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” They are all of these, and they give me the necessities to understand the worlds encased with a hard leather binding. Words know no boundaries, allowing people to visualize the serenity of the forest and the wrath of a battlefield. While giving us this, even more so they give us the ability to question, and without questions words would not have come to exist. …show more content…
And with emotion, I have come to understand the story through the evaluation of the events and characters. I can now evaluate many things throughout the story. One such thing is how Kvothe came to many of his decisions. In the story he faces many dangers, yet he manages to resolve the situation by the skin of his teeth. Near the halfway point of the story Kvothe rescues Fela from a fire in the fishery. I believe that he did this because the fire reminded him of his troupe. In his childhood he had a traumatic experience with a group of people called the Chandrian. These people killed his troupe and set his caravan ablaze. While Kvothe survived the encounter, he has been scarred by the experience. I think that this experience spurred him on to help Fela who was in a comparable situation. Even if that had nothing to do with it, no matter what the situation I know that he would help because he think that “Bones mend. Regret stays with you