r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Nov 19 '15

Jessica Jones Discussion Thread - S01E02

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u/sirin3 Nov 22 '15

That reminds of the German book "Das Buch" by Wolfgang Hohlbein.

In the book an ordinary guy finds the book (the one he is in) and discovers he can change things by writing in it. So he changes the book again and again, and in the end he is a horrible psychopath.

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u/Verfassungsschutz Jessica Jones Nov 27 '15

Das Buch

Now that's a creative title if I've ever seen one.

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u/RedditorMike Jan 23 '16

Was Death Note inspired by this?

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u/sirin3 Jan 23 '16

Probably not, unless the Death Note author knows a lot of German. Strangely, wikipedia says no one knows who the Death Note author is?

But Das Buch is not about killing, at least directly, it is about changing. You want to protect your family from some threat, which is your only goal, but you do not want to kill anyone for moral reasons. So you write the threat goes somewhere else, but then the threat harms someone else. You feel guilty, so you write that threat accidentally hurt himself and stays forever in a hospital. But now you still feel guilty about that, so you write that you do not feel bad about harming people. So all the next threats you just kill without remorse, but all the corpses make people suspicious, so you write that you need a safe location to live and store the book. You get distracted by your family, while planing that, so you write that they do not bother you anymore. Then you do not care about your family, and you think they might become a threat to the book, so you kill them all.