Warbreaker

Warbreaker is a book thick with both information and tale. Breath, the vital element to our lives, also played a major role in the book, abet in a slightly different manner. Breath is given to every human when they are born, this single breath can then be substituted if you have enough money with more which can give the person heightened senses along with other superhuman qualities.  There are many other fantastical qualities, mages, lifeless corpses, as well as a thick plot of political intrigue. This whole theme of tying fantastical qualities and human life is a theme widely used in the science and fiction genre.  The movies that were tied into this post also follow these themes, where in war breaker, there is a convicting tribes, in Coraline there is a conflicting sense of place. Coraline is torn between two worlds, not so much politically but more inside herself. She does not know which world is right or which is meant for her. The same can be said for Chihiro, or Sen as she comes to be known. She finds her self thrown into this new world, which she does not belong, and just like Coraline or Siri. This immersion into a strange new world, not familiar to the character can be linked with  biases and predigest of our kind. Many people not unlike Siri and Vivenna have been in one place for all of there lives, such as modern day america. When up rooted to some where else, such as Hallendren, or exposed to there belief or customs of another land like the middle east. We are scared, we cast predigest and type casting. We don't understand them, and its unlike what we believe so it must be evil, it must be rebellious or demonic or untrustworthy. This is an age old battle of ideals and ways of life is going to sadly be prevalent in almost all cultures till the end of time, thus entangling novels into these themes of alienation in a strange world having customs that we may not understand, but need to embrace for us to be able to assimilate, or escape.