Post by Leah on Mar 30, 2013 23:29:57 GMT -5
I know I'm not the only one. When reading the books, I noticed how their names seemed to match with their appearances. Firepaw was colored as fire, Bluestar was blue-grey, and Lionheart is pale golden. I always believed that prefix related to appearance. That's why the names Runningnose and Runningwind never made sense as I was never sure what the prefix represented, and could never remember what any cat with a strange prefix even looked like. Even if I read the Alleigances list, I never did get it.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is Oakheart. Naturally, I inferred that this cat was colored as an Oak Tree: brown. I never bothered reading how he was described in the Alleigances because I thought it didn't matter; I already "knew" he was colored brown by his name. However, I realized something when re-reading the first arc: He is described as Bracken-colored.
Now, if you read Ailuronymy or even bother to look up Bracken, you know that it is a fern, so it is green. So what made our minds think it was fine to begin with? What made us think that Brackens were naturally brown? Simple. Oakheart's appearance, I believe.
We believed that Oakheart's appearance was simply brown because of his name. He was described as Bracken-colored throughout the first arc. So, instead of wondering what a Bracken was, we just assumed it was a brown plant because, what other color would we think Oakheart to be described as?
This simple description of this clearly brown cat made us see the prefix Bracken- and think of brown. That's why we saw Cinderpaw's brother, Brackenpaw, and believed he was colored brown. What other color would he be? And he turned out as so. What gets me is why Erin Hunter even used Bracken-colored as a description in the first place, but she (incidentally) made us believe that Brackens are brown and not green.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is Oakheart. Naturally, I inferred that this cat was colored as an Oak Tree: brown. I never bothered reading how he was described in the Alleigances because I thought it didn't matter; I already "knew" he was colored brown by his name. However, I realized something when re-reading the first arc: He is described as Bracken-colored.
Now, if you read Ailuronymy or even bother to look up Bracken, you know that it is a fern, so it is green. So what made our minds think it was fine to begin with? What made us think that Brackens were naturally brown? Simple. Oakheart's appearance, I believe.
We believed that Oakheart's appearance was simply brown because of his name. He was described as Bracken-colored throughout the first arc. So, instead of wondering what a Bracken was, we just assumed it was a brown plant because, what other color would we think Oakheart to be described as?
This simple description of this clearly brown cat made us see the prefix Bracken- and think of brown. That's why we saw Cinderpaw's brother, Brackenpaw, and believed he was colored brown. What other color would he be? And he turned out as so. What gets me is why Erin Hunter even used Bracken-colored as a description in the first place, but she (incidentally) made us believe that Brackens are brown and not green.
