Fantasy

I read Troll Bridge by Terry Pratchett for this week’s reading. I found it to be an interesting story because it addressed both the traditional and the modern fantasy and heroic journey. It follows a traditional hero, Connan the Barbarian, and his quest to find and best a troll. Yet this ‘old world’ hero must confront the modern world and the changing roles of humans and other species in this world. The troll he meets must do the same. Both characters struggle to adapt to this new way of life, where trolls and humans alike live in cities and have non traditional jobs. The nostalgia for the past and old way of life was very interesting. Usually we see a modern hero or a traditional hero and their journey in that respective wold, as opposed to a traditional hero having to adapt to a modern journey. This lets the reader question what fantasy is in a way that a reader might not think to question it.