A confusing timeline.....

[Dagon Thyne]

I'm a little over halfway through my first read through of Eye of the World, waiting for AMOL to come out. I didnt catch this on my first read, but I found that RJ's writing style is a bit confusing. At the beginning of Play For Your Supper, it mentions Rand and Mat receiveing scarves from a farmer, but timeline wise, this does not happen until after they had already left Four Kings to get away from Gode. I was very confused, but then I realized that the entirety of Play for your supper, Dark Waits, and Four KIngs in Shadow go go between the present time, with Rand and Mat traveling after Four Kings, and Flashbacks.

 

I still don't fully understand why RJ wrote it in this fashion. The story would be just the same if he wrote the happenings in order.

[MasterAblar]

I'm a little over halfway through my first read through of Eye of the World, waiting for AMOL to come out. I didnt catch this on my first read, but I found that RJ's writing style is a bit confusing. At the beginning of Play For Your Supper, it mentions Rand and Mat receiveing scarves from a farmer, but timeline wise, this does not happen until after they had already left Four Kings to get away from Gode. I was very confused, but then I realized that the entirety of Play for your supper, Dark Waits, and Four KIngs in Shadow go go between the present time, with Rand and Mat traveling after Four Kings, and Flashbacks.

 

I still don't fully understand why RJ wrote it in this fashion. The story would be just the same if he wrote the happenings in order.

 

I was confused too the first time I read that part. Don't worry I'm pretty sure it's the only time he wrote in that way.

[Agitel]

Jordan later admitted that it was a failed technique. Most find that passage confusing for a moment.

[Thorum]

Jordan later admitted that it was a failed technique. Most find that passage confusing for a moment.

 

Meaning you understand the timeline of those chapters now?

[dapianoplay3r]

I was sick with the flu the first time I read it. I had a fever and I just put it down to that. It wasn't till I reread the series that I twigged that it was written like that

[Shini]

Found that same passage a bit confusing at first but in the end it was quite clear tbh

[Luckers]

Jordan later admitted that it was a failed technique. Most find that passage confusing for a moment.

 

Meaning you understand the timeline of those chapters now?

 

 

Yeah, the first depiction is real, the second is a flashback to the same incident. I've no idea what Jordan was trying to achieve with it though.

[Agitel]

Jordan later admitted that it was a failed technique. Most find that passage confusing for a moment.

 

Meaning you understand the timeline of those chapters now?

 

 

Yeah, the first depiction is real, the second is a flashback to the same incident. I've no idea what Jordan was trying to achieve with it though.

 

I assume it was to try to get the reader into Rand's POV, specifically his distorted perception of time and order of events.

[pxnsolid]

I always read this as a "... Last weeks episode of Two Farmboys Afoot, our hero's adventure took a new twist..." Type flash back, xcept in true WoT fashion it took the last three episodes verbatim to properly describe :)

[Thorum]

Jordan later admitted that it was a failed technique. Most find that passage confusing for a moment.

 

Meaning you understand the timeline of those chapters now?

 

 

Yeah, the first depiction is real, the second is a flashback to the same incident. I've no idea what Jordan was trying to achieve with it though.

 

That one I got (since it is explained in a couple of places). The order of all the visits, towns, ... is much more difficult (especially without a map).

[Alric]

I remember it too, it wasn't that confusing but it wasn't really necessary either. I'm guessing he did it to move things along faster and skip the boring parts.