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The Circle Series

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The Circle Series	comment	The Circle Series, originally known as The Circle Trilogy, is a series of novels by Ted Dekker, as well as a series of graphic novels. It is apart of the larger Books Of History Chronicles, and was the first series written for it. Black Red White GreenOne night, Thomas Hunter, an aspiring writer with a sketchy past, receives a severe head injury after being jumped in an alley. Though he escapes with his life, he's knocked out cold, and the next thing Thomas knows, he awakens in another world with no memory of how he got there. This "Other Earth", an idyllic parallel to our own and our world 2000 years in the future consists of two mega-forests, divided in half by a river:The first forest, consisting of brightly colored trees and healing fruit, is home to Elyon's Children (Humans) and white bats called Roush.The other, the Black Forest, houses the Shataiki, evil black bats led by the former Roush, Teeleh. Though the Shataiki are less than welcoming when a human tries to enter the Black Forest, Teeleh would like nothing more, so long as the person drank the Elyon-forbidden water within the Forest.If someone did (which Tanis, the first man, eventually does), this would allow Teeleh to cross the river and corrupt the Colored Forest and the people living there.Every time Thomas goes to sleep in one world, he awakens in the other. As realities begin to blur, Thomas discovers that the Raison Strain, a deadly virus that could wipe out most of our world's population, is about to be released. At the same time, the Other Earth becomes ravaged by evil and teeters on the brink of destruction. Thomas must race against time to save both worlds from the nightmares unleashed upon them, while protecting himself and his loved ones from the forces trying to stop him.The first book was expanded by Dekker's unpublished short story, "A Song of Eden," and, just like the original, is meant to be an obvious parallel to the Biblical Garden of Eden. While the plot about the Raison Strain adds tension, a sense of urgency, and grounding in the real world, the thrust of the original trilogy is the other world, which is an obvious parallel to the three phases of God's relationship with mankind as detailed in the Christian Bible. Black portrays Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve, right down to the one and only rule (don't drink Teelah's water) and ends with a renewed fall of mankind. Red portrays the nation of Israel prior to Christ and the coming of Christ as a rather unorthodox and unpopular preacher who is executed in what is considered the worst possible fashion, only to rise again. White is a portrayal of early Christianity, despised by the establishment and forced to run and hide from execution.The biggest part of this parallel is making metaphorical concepts in Judaism and Christianity literal, posing a new perspective on them. Sin is represented as a literal corruption which makes people ugly, sickly, and constantly in pain, and in Red, must be literally washed away with water given by Elyon. It also has the effect of blinding the corrupted to their condition and causing them to view normal humans as ugly. In White, believers must literally die the same way their savior did in order to be permanently cured of corruption. Several others exist, and it's even Lampshaded at one point.
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The Circle Series / int_1bb2c500	type	TheHorde
The Circle Series / int_1bb2c500	comment	The Horde: All Scabs who refuse to bathe in Elyon's lakes (which cures their skin disease) are called this. After Justin is killed, everyone who does not drown in the lakes will become a Scab and join the Horde.
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The Circle Series / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Circle Series / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Armand Fortier. (Although he's a bit worse than a jerk...)
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The Circle Series / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Circle Series / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: One of the people living in the oases in Red used to be corrupted, but voluntarily washed himself one day, only to find out that it really does make you feel better.
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The Circle Series / int_41a48472	type	Bat Out of Hell
The Circle Series / int_41a48472	comment	Bat Out of Hell: Played straight with Shataiki and averted with Roush.
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The Circle Series / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Circle Series / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: What happens to Justin at the end of Red.
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The Circle Series / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Circle Series / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: At the end of Green where Thomas is allowed to go back in time to save his son, but has no memory of it. Since this series was written as a circle . . .
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The Circle Series / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Circle Series / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The description of what the Raison Strain does to the human body. And in Green, the scene in which Marsuuv removes Billy's eyes and replaces them with 'slimy black orbs'.
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The Circle Series / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Circle Series / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Carlos Missiran to Valborg Svensson for awhile at least.
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The Circle Series / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Circle Series / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: In Red and White, the Horde, a disease-ridden version of humanity, despise the Albinos, or people who bath ritually in Elyon's lakes, and the Albino hate the Horde. Further pushed in Green where the Horde are divided into two racial variants, the full breed Horde and the Half-Breeds. In this case, Horde, Half-Breeds, and Albinos all hate each other despite being human.
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The Circle Series / int_5f1153ef	type	One Character, Multiple Lives
The Circle Series / int_5f1153ef	comment	One Character, Multiple Lives: Thomas Hunter receives a head injury and wakes up in another world. The action is then split across "our world" and that other world: every time Hunter falls asleep in one, he wakes up in the other.
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The Circle Series / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Circle Series / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Carlos, and Chelise, among others.
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The Circle Series / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
The Circle Series / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: Shataiki and Roush are alluded to in a few other of Dekker's books, as are the title's colors. The Forest Guard is mentioned briefly in Skin.
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The Circle Series / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Circle Series / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Green, when Elyon agrees to let Thomas go back in time and try to save his son, but without the memories of what happened.
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The Circle Series / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
The Circle Series / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: Robert Blair is an interesting mix of President Iron and President Personable.
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The Circle Series / int_7fbb2a3	type	NiceJobBreakingItHero
The Circle Series / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The entire plot of the first book involves the protagonist attempting to save two worlds and, consequently, bringing about the disasters (developing a biological weapon in one, letting evil back into the world in the other) he intended to stop. Nice job dooming two whole realities, hero.
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The Circle Series / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Circle Series / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Teeleh, Marsuuv, and the Shataiki. Marsuuv and the Shataiki are described as bat-like with wolf heads, claws, beedy red eyes, and all that fun stuff. Teeleh's description is more straight forward and horrific. He is described as a large, bat/snake/dragon hybrid with wings, red eyes, large claws, a wolf-like head, and fangs.
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The Circle Series / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Circle Series / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Thomas Hunter (twice!). And also Rachelle once. Justin. Even after being brutally beaten, drowned, and stabbed in the climax of Red, reappears at the end of the novel, confirms that he is the adult form of Elyon, and claims his 'Circle' (those that chose to drown in the lake he was killed in to save themselves from becoming Scabs) as his chosen people. It makes sense since he's a Messianic Archetype of Other Earth.
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The Circle Series / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Circle Series / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Carlos averted this happening to him by doing a Mook–Face Turn on his former boss(es) by blowing them to pieces with an anti-tank missile.
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The Circle Series / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Circle Series / int_a2b38d3b	comment	And in Green, the scene in which Marsuuv removes Billy's eyes and replaces them with 'slimy black orbs'.
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The Circle Series / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Circle Series / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Tanis, Ciphus, and Samuel.
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The Circle Series / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Circle Series / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Tanis, Mikil, Chelise, Johan, Rachelle and Thomas (though this may not be the case, since Thomas is technically from a different world.)
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The Circle Series / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
The Circle Series / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Other Earth and the modern-day world.
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The Circle Series / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
The Circle Series / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: Roush and Shataiki, and, on a skin-condition level, Scabs (diseased) and Albinos (washed in Elyon's Waters.)
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The Circle Series / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Circle Series / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Thomas and Rachelle, later Thomas and Chelise. Among many others.
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The Circle Series / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Circle Series / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Teeleh.
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The Circle Series / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Circle Series / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Justin. Full stop. Heck, the title of the second book is meant to refer to him.
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The Circle Series / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Circle Series / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Rachelle.
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The Circle Series / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
The Circle Series / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: Scabs are people infected with a disease that makes the flesh look decayed and rotten, and corrupts a persons heart into turning away from Elyon.
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The Circle Series / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Circle Series / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Scabs (corrupted humans) won't believe anything the Albinos (normal humans) tell them about cleansing themselves, even though it's pretty obvious they find each other attractive, don't think they smell bad, and have a clear and tangible military advantage caused by them not suffering constant joint pain. Justified in that the corruption affects your mind.
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The Circle Series / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Circle Series / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Mikil, Rachelle, Suzan, and Marie most prominently.
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The Circle Series / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
The Circle Series / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: The Other Earth is thousands of years into the future, but the events mirror similar events in the Bible; implying that evil, sin and the need for redemption will always be present in some form.
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The Circle Series / int_e235202a	type	The Power of Blood
The Circle Series / int_e235202a	comment	The Power of Blood: This trope is a driving force throughout the series, especially in Green. Notably, injuries that shed blood are the only physical things that can cross the dimensional barrier.
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The Circle Series / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Circle Series / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Marsuuv to Marsuuvees Black (the main villain in The Paradise Novels).
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The Circle Series / int_edada905	type	Garden of Evil
The Circle Series / int_edada905	comment	Garden of Evil: The initial Shataiki-ridden Black Forest.
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TheLostBooks	seeAlso	The Circle Series
White	seeAlso	The Circle Series
Black	seeAlso	The Circle Series
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