Have you ever looked down on someone due to how they look? Do the clothes they wear or the color of their skin tell you all you need to know about them? In Passage to Dawn, by R. A. Salvatore, is a fantasy novel based in the Forgotten Realms, and published by TSR, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast in 1996, a Drow Elf Drizzt Do’Urden fights the criticism from others do to where he was born and how he looks. Salvatore shows how Drizzt over comes this and how his friends and some strangers are able to overlook Drizzt heritage and see the true goodness in his heart.
The book starts with a journal entry from Drizzt Do’Urden showing his inner turmoil as a Drow Elf, and as a being in love with his best friend’s widow, Catti-brie. After the entry a narrator
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Drizzt is skeptical about finding a priest though as he knows the chance of being turned away, or even worse, assaulted by an entire town.
Cadderly, the priest of Spirit Soaring, didn’t have to look past the fact that Drizzt was a Drow Elf as he never saw him as anything but a ranger for the greater good. The author adds this to help show not all are prejudice, and some don’t feel threatened around Drizzt. Cadderly summons an imp from the Abyss who speaks of one loved by Drizzt held and tortured by Errtu, a greater balor. Drizzt has meet Errtu before, and he ended the meeting with a sword of banishing in Errtu’s chest. Immediately Drizzt knows that this Abyssal balor was come to the Prime Material Plane to fight Drizzt.
R. A. Salvatore expressed the main theme of the book in many situations but the most empowering to Drizzt was when he was taken aboard the Sea Sprite, but when Drizzt goes through some towns he is still shunned. This is showing that one person’s kindness cannot change the world, and that it takes everyone to change. In latter installments of the series Drizzt walks openly in the home town of the Sea Sprite, Waterdeep, with the demeanor of an everyday traveller, as people view him as a true hero in that