EVERDYBOY HERE'S NEIL GAIMAN!!!!!
Endless Siblings, Death and Dream, she will come for you at the end, and he will be with you all your life.
The Sandman Series
Neil Gaiman
This is a series of Graphic novels that are written about the existence of seven beings in the world. They are not gods, because gods die when there is no one to believe in them. They are not human, because they are every form of being, and none of them. These 7 brothers and sisters are (in order from oldest to youngest) Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium (who used to be Delight). A theme woven through these stories is that even though these are higher beings, higher then everything, their emotions still rule them, they still have what we would call “human tendencies” to do things out of anger, because even though each of them still is this, they all dream, destroy, desire, despair and die, and these things make them do the things they are destined to do or go crazy and do completely delirious things. The graphic novels each tell tales of how they Endless (the seven beings) affect us, and that at every moment of our lives we are in one of their realms.
The protagonist of these novels is The Sandman, Dream of the Endless, he is I think the most prone to human feelings, that is why Gaiman wrote him as the protagonist, so that readers would be able to relate to his existence more than that of the others. I think this series is both a critique to those who believe in destiny, and a laugh in the face of those who deny it. Confused? Well that’s what all Gaiman books do, get used to it!
The Epic-ness of Neil Gaiman
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