It is very interesting to see how human civilizations interact with one another. There is
             good evidence of this in the novel, Myst: The Book of D'ni, by Rand Miller, as the race of D'ni
             and Terahnee reunite with one another after many centuries of seperration. We will learn how the
             D'ni will change the lives of the Terahnee forever through an analysis of the novel, the use and
             effect of its literary devices, key passages and with critiques on the importance and effectiveness
             We can see the changes the D'ni braught to the Terahnee as we analyse the main message
             of the novel, how foreshadowing predicts future events and the climactic event. Atrus, leader of
             the D'ni discovers the land of Terahnee and immediatly loves this land of many wonders. It is
             like no other land he has ever seen. This is where the main message of the novel comes along.
             'Never judge a book by its cover', as wonderful as it may seem at first glance. The people who
             own this land, the Terahnee, welcome them with open arms, knowing that thousands of years ago,
             the D'ni and the Terahnee formed one race, the Garternay. What Atrus doesn't know is that times
             have changed and the Terahnee hold a dark and inhuman secret. Everything about the land of
             Terahnee is but an illusion, as slaves work to maintain the beauty of this land. These slaves are
             called the 'Relyimah' and any mistake by one of them is punishable by death. Later on,Atrus finds
             out about the secret and decides to help free the Relyimah. "Yet now that he knew what he was
             seeing, this landscape, which had seemed so wonderful when he'd first viewed it, so constantly
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             surprising, now seemed merely desolate: a fragile artifice that had been shattered in an instance."
             (Miller 269). What seemed to be good hearted and magical (...