The Book Of Nod essays

The Book Of Nod essays The preface to this book is very cool. I know that this book is totally fictional, and is in no way real, but the preface makes the book sound like it was written from ancient scrolls and manuscripts that were uncovered through his journies. The preface describes how he was able to get all of the material to write the book. It is incredibly detailed and extreamly vague at the same time if that is possible. With all of the history and this mans travels in the preface, it seems like the book is written from fact and really gives the book a nice read to it. Chapter Two: The Chronicals of Caine This is the begining of Caine's adventure, this story was written in a biblical type of story line. The diffrence from the bible and this book is that instead of focusing on the light, it focuses on the darker side. Instead of god, this book more or less deals and talks of the devil. Caine in this story, just as in the bible, starts off by sacrificing his most prised possetion to god, in this case it happens to be his brother Able. He thinks this to be a fitting sacrifice because he was told to sacrifice that which was most dear to him. Insted of the praise that he thought he would recieve, he was cursed by the god he loved so much. He was cursed into the land of NOD. The land of nothing, the land of balckness. Caine, in this new world, was completely helpless, until he came upon a woman named Lilith. Lilith was able to help him and give him comfort. In doing so, she fell in love with Caine. Caine, later, was vistited by the archangels of god. First was the archangel Michel. Micheal offered himforgiveness, Caine's responce was "I shall not be forgiven by god but by my own strength." With this responce Caine was further cursed. God set onto him the curse that "For ever more fire shall bite you and take thy flesh openly." Making him even more effected by fire than normal mortals. The next archangel to come was Rapheal. Again, Caine was...