tPoD, Chapter 29: A Cup of Sleep

[J-Rad]

I just finished tPoD yesterday and personally found the death of Fedwin Morr to be one of the most emotional scenes in the entire series.  I just want ot know the general reactions of others to his scene becuase quite honestly I found it very sad, never has any scene in any book made me want to cry as much as this scene.

 

She [Min] could still remember the horror when sh erealized teh boy "guarding" her now had the mind of a small child.  The sadness remained, too -Light, he was only a small boy! it was not right!-...  It had not been easy, talking Fedwin into playing with those wooden blocks instead of pulling stones out of teh wall with the Power to make a "big tower to keep you safe in."  And then she had sat guardin him until Rand came.  Oh, Light she wanted to cry.

 

This quote escpecially hit me hard.  I think it was the image of a young man, I don't think he was even 20 but I'm not entirley sure, breaking down because of madness, yet still loyal and able to cling on to that one command that he was to protect Min.  I remember invisioning him franticly pulling bricks out of the wall and trying to convince Min that all will be alright, that he will still protect her.

 

Rand actualy giving him the tea and telling him to sleep was another part that touched me. 

"Sleep, Fedwin," Rand murmered

It did seem the boy was going to sleep.  His eyes closed.  His chest rose and fell more slowly.  Slower.  Until it stopped.  The smile never left his lips.

 

In my honest opinion Jordan did a wonderful job with this scene.  Personally this scene alone puts PoD up there on my list favorite books. I wasn't very attached to Morr, but his death was still very trajic and stands as a chilling reminder to Rand that he needs to clense Saidin.  ALthough at this point I think it's obvious that he and Nyneave are going to find a way to cleanse it unsing the Choeden Kal...

[TheBeerPatriot]

Good post JRad.  I'm in the middle of re-reading tPoD, and had forgotten about the power of that scene, it's underrated.  I wasn't a fan of this book in comparison to other ones in the series because I felt it dawdled a bit (especially on Elayne's and Egwene's POV'S), but the Rand scenes are decent and this is a case in point.  I'll have to re-evaluate my thoughts on this book once I'm done with the re-read.

[Muirenn]

This was a really great scene, always brings tears to my eyes.

[Durinax]

fantastic scene

[water_seeker]

It was far more tear-jerking than the scene RJ warned us about (I won't be more specific because it looks like it'd be a spoiler if I did).

[Stanley the Bugman]

That was really sad. I would have liked to have seen it through Rand's perspective though. I wonder if he would have had felt the same as Min, or if he would have been kind of cold about it.

[Balefire to da face!]

I never liked that scene. I found it to be dissorienting. It's been a while since I read it, but didn't it take place after the attempt on Rand's life by the rogue ashaman? And then it cut to that scene rather quickly, and I was kind of confused as to what exactly was happening.

 

And the fact that Morr had succumbed to a symptom of the madness that had never really been mentioned before(we heard about men going mad and destroying things, not about men reverting to infants and playing with blocks...) confused me as well. Looking back I understand what happened, and it doesn't seem like most others had this problem, but I always disliked that scene because I found it to be pretty confusing.

[redarm]

I believe I remember a mention of this kind of behavior at some point.  Perhaps the flashbacks in Rhuidean.  Not sure.  I am pretty sure it was somewhere however.  

[Owayn The Traveller]

Yes it is a touching scene. I reckon it did affect Rand aswell.