Way of Shadows #2

As I am reading The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks, I am thinking about what I am going to research. I have decided that there are two things that i could research and write about that would be interesting to me and possibly to whoever reads my paper. The two research subjects that I am thinking about looking into are both older subject matter, The first thing that i have thought about researching is the process of apprenticeship. The way that I would use the information that i have found out about the apprenticeship process is that I would compare the way that Weeks writes about how the main character Kylar’s apprenticeship goes such as things that were learned at what point in his life and the jobs that he would have compared to what a student would normally have to do for their master. I would also outline how the apprenticeship would normally play out along with more of the facts about the process, so that it could also be a bit educational.

The other subject that I could explore further is what a coup is. The reason this could be a part of the paper is because later in the book a large cause of the problems is the coup that is being set in motion by a rival kingdom. My plan with the idea of a coup would be to first establish what a coup is just in case the audience does not know and  then i would start to elaborate on how the coup that is performed in the book would hold up in the real world. I would be able to then talk about the things that have to be taken care of for a coup to function which would allow me to talk about how lines of succession work in monarchies and other things along those lines. Later in the paper I would write about coups that have occurred in history and if they are well documented I could compare what happened in the book’s coup with what happened in the real world and other examples of what occurred that allowed it to happen. I will also be able to talk about failed attempts and be able to look at what may have gone wrong in them.