Two more! I'm getting there. The next one led to a lot of unnecessary backstory, so while I write the actual scene for this, I'm going to post the entire thing on my Writing Exercises because wow its like two pages already and we haven't even hit the actual battle XD
~Blaze

Day 10: Write a short character analysis about the last novel you read.

Analysis: Moth Flight's Vision

Oh GOD where to I begin. Hmmmmm. The last book I read was Moth Flight's Vision by Erin Hunter. I guess I'll analyse Moth Flight. I was really tempted to talk about the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson because I have the newest one sitting on my desk right now but that analysis will take the next year or so to do, so I'm going to stick to Warriors. But seriously, Brandon Sanderson is an amazing author and if you like fantasy I recommend it!

Ok. Well Moth Flight herself was an... interesting character. You know I just realized that Mothwing shares the same prefix as Moth Flight. Maybe that's why she was a good medicine cat (except for the StarClan thing)- she's probably distantly related to Moth Flight through Tigerstar's genes. Back on track though!

Moth Flight was altogether a very great character to read about from a Warrior Cats author standpoint. I learned more about herbs and herb lore and the differences in herbs between the territories then I ever knew, and I swear to you my next Warriors book is going to feature a medicine cat as my main character. I have so many plans for it let me tell you!

As a main character, Moth Flight's inquisitive nature and obsession with herbs was both cute and relatable. However, we already knew from the series that she was meant to discover herb lore and become a medicine cat, as well as StarClan's first link to the Clans through the MoonStone. So altogether the story was also predictable. As a person, Moth Flight was very normal, with ideals that I understood and related to.

Until we got to the end of the book.

I was FASCINATED by this concept. Beware of spoilers from this point on- and seriously the beginning part isn't a spoiler unless you know nothing about Warriors. But what I am about to say is. So just be warned.

Ok- so the Clan cats came from the Tribe cats who earlier were the Lake cats. I get that. The cultures mix and blend because they of course are all inter-related. Lets rewind to the Tribe cats. Half of them picked up, went to the Clan territories, and settled there. 5 Clans eventually formed but honestly they had the stupidest fights because Clear Sky is too much of a mouse brain to do anything right.

Now, let's look at Moth Flight's genealogy. She is the daughter of Wind Runner and Gorse Fur. Nothing too remarkable there, until you remember that both of those cats are actually Wind and Gorse, two cats that are not of Clan blood. I don't want to pull a Harry Potter, but up until this point all the Clans but ThunderClan, RiverClan, and WindClan are led by Tribe cats- Tall Shadow for ShadowClan and Clear Sky for SkyClan. We also know that in the future, the Clan cats have serious issues with 'outside cats' who aren't part of their Clans.

Now for the spoiler. Moth Flight clearly isn't a Clan cat by genetics. Now, what happens in the book? She meets a random farmcat named Micah and they have kits. After a few very random scenes of her being 'conflicted between her kits and her Clan members' (honestly once they got older I'm pretty sure she would have been fine again.) leads to her deciding that the medicine cats can't have kits. Then she proceeds to give each of her four kits to the other Clans, leaving herself in WindClan and letting her bloodline run through the Clans as 'the thing that holds everything together'. Which is great. Until you realize that both her and her kits have no Clan blood.

Now I don't know about you, but I just heard the most hypocritical story about the Clan cats. The glue that holds them together isn't even from their group! Yet these cats get angry and defensive when rogues and loners come near for the sole reason that they don't like foreign cats. There's a complete difference from disliking other cats for intruding on the territory, and disliking other cats because they aren't part of the Clan. But when half of the Clan's blood isn't even from the Clan, that's when things get super fuzzy and hypocritical.

I just thought that was absolutely hilarious- and that Erin Hunter most definitely put that there on purpose to show how hilariously hypocritical and unnecessary racism can be. Because look at Firestar- he's a kittypet but at the end of the day (or well, the series) he was better than all of the Clan cats.

So there's my book/character analysis. Enjoy it.