I love Sparkpelt
Jul 14, 2024 18:22:20 GMT -5
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Post by flyingtiger on Jul 14, 2024 18:22:20 GMT -5
I remember my mother buying The Apprentice's Quest, the first Warrior Cats book I had ever read, for my birthday. She figured that since I enjoyed reading and had a great love for cats, she felt there was no reason not to.
Of course, I thought it was amazing. I thought the concept of talking cats in the wild was great, and I enjoyed the setting and a few of the characters. Yet, Sparkpaw was the character I grew very attached to.
She was cool, funny, and enthusiastic. I was instantly in love with her. Honestly, I wanted to be her. Since I was still getting used to being a big sister, I even started modeling my relationships with my sisters after hers and Alderpaw's.
I used to urge my mother to buy every new A Vision of Shadows installment as soon as it came out. The story piqued my interest. However, Sparkpaw, now Sparkpelt, was the main reason. Which is why I was dissatisfied with how she developed and disappointed that we saw less and less of her as the arc went on.
When A Vision of Shadows finished and The Broken Code started, I was even more upset because she was mostly in the background. But when she did appear, I would smile. and I was afraid that when those dogs attacked her, she would not survive. But she was okay, so that made me have peace.
However, A Starless Clan happened.
Anyway, my wish came true. Although Sparkpelt was once again in the spotlight, her portrayal in her son's Nightheart story was negative. I also have issues with Berryheart and Sunbeam, as Berryheart is depicted as an extreme bigot despite her own history of being OK with outsiders; in fact, she named one of her children after a loner. However, that is a discussion for a different time. Similar things occurred with Sparkpelt, who was now a negligent mother, even though that was never the case. Before reading Squirrelflight's Hope a few weeks ago, I was unaware of this. Though she didn't give a damn about Firestar, she is now, like everyone else, utterly obsessed with him. Yes, she was compared to Firestar in certain instances in A Vision of Shadows, but those were her clanmates, not her.
This arc has Sparkpelt being vilified all the way to Shadow, where she and Nightheart have their "I see you" moment. Personally, I couldn't care less about this; I was just thankful that the story would no longer treat Sparkpelt like the devil. After that, Sparkpelt loses her significance to the story arc and returns to being irrelevant because she was just used to make Nightheart's arc like Alderheart's years earlier.
I made this post because I wanted to talk about her in Squirrelflight's Hope. How much I could relate to her in this book surprised me. Not that she had ppd, or that her husband had died in front of her, or that she was seriously ill. However, I could identify with her because of her relationship with her parents. She defends and stands up for her mother in a way that makes me think of the times I did the same for my mother when my father started verbally abusing us.Not many people discuss how much she doesn't like Branblestar and the way he treats her, or how she confronts her mother about why she keeps standing by him in spite of his terrible treatment of her. Someone explore this, please. I felt terrible for her, as she is often sucked into her parent's fights, like me. Not to mention that she became very ill, witnessed the death of her very sick husband in front of her, lost a kit at birth, and her mother was caught in a landslide. God, give my girl a break.
I love Sparkpelt. I wish the writers gave her the same respect that I do in their books. I wish she were in a different series where she was valued and not the object of the male characters' anguish.
Of course, I thought it was amazing. I thought the concept of talking cats in the wild was great, and I enjoyed the setting and a few of the characters. Yet, Sparkpaw was the character I grew very attached to.
She was cool, funny, and enthusiastic. I was instantly in love with her. Honestly, I wanted to be her. Since I was still getting used to being a big sister, I even started modeling my relationships with my sisters after hers and Alderpaw's.
I used to urge my mother to buy every new A Vision of Shadows installment as soon as it came out. The story piqued my interest. However, Sparkpaw, now Sparkpelt, was the main reason. Which is why I was dissatisfied with how she developed and disappointed that we saw less and less of her as the arc went on.
When A Vision of Shadows finished and The Broken Code started, I was even more upset because she was mostly in the background. But when she did appear, I would smile. and I was afraid that when those dogs attacked her, she would not survive. But she was okay, so that made me have peace.
However, A Starless Clan happened.
Anyway, my wish came true. Although Sparkpelt was once again in the spotlight, her portrayal in her son's Nightheart story was negative. I also have issues with Berryheart and Sunbeam, as Berryheart is depicted as an extreme bigot despite her own history of being OK with outsiders; in fact, she named one of her children after a loner. However, that is a discussion for a different time. Similar things occurred with Sparkpelt, who was now a negligent mother, even though that was never the case. Before reading Squirrelflight's Hope a few weeks ago, I was unaware of this. Though she didn't give a damn about Firestar, she is now, like everyone else, utterly obsessed with him. Yes, she was compared to Firestar in certain instances in A Vision of Shadows, but those were her clanmates, not her.
This arc has Sparkpelt being vilified all the way to Shadow, where she and Nightheart have their "I see you" moment. Personally, I couldn't care less about this; I was just thankful that the story would no longer treat Sparkpelt like the devil. After that, Sparkpelt loses her significance to the story arc and returns to being irrelevant because she was just used to make Nightheart's arc like Alderheart's years earlier.
I made this post because I wanted to talk about her in Squirrelflight's Hope. How much I could relate to her in this book surprised me. Not that she had ppd, or that her husband had died in front of her, or that she was seriously ill. However, I could identify with her because of her relationship with her parents. She defends and stands up for her mother in a way that makes me think of the times I did the same for my mother when my father started verbally abusing us.Not many people discuss how much she doesn't like Branblestar and the way he treats her, or how she confronts her mother about why she keeps standing by him in spite of his terrible treatment of her. Someone explore this, please. I felt terrible for her, as she is often sucked into her parent's fights, like me. Not to mention that she became very ill, witnessed the death of her very sick husband in front of her, lost a kit at birth, and her mother was caught in a landslide. God, give my girl a break.
I love Sparkpelt. I wish the writers gave her the same respect that I do in their books. I wish she were in a different series where she was valued and not the object of the male characters' anguish.