Interesting idea that if you use your powers or gifts to help yourself it changes you but if you share them you are changed in a different way. Using your powers or gifts for yourself you become a selfish and angry person that destroys things. We seem to want to create superheroes in our life to save the day. Is that the best way? Brandon Sanderson shows a very different way of looking at those with unhuman amounts of power. Following the idea that power corrupts. In this particular story a boy who was filled with desires for revenge uses all his energy to learn about those that have unhuman powers (named Epics). He uses his knowledge to seek revenge for the death of his father. As he bands with a group that work to kill off the epics, he misses that there are epics among him. He learns that there is a ‘humanness’ in each of those with powers too. So what is more important? Destroying all that use their powers incorrectly, or help creating a better place to live? Does David find a better goal than just revenge?
Then more importantly, what am I to learn about human nature from this book?
Do I look to other people to create a society? How am I involved in making my community a better place? Do I understand where I am flawed and what I need to do?
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