The way the family grow in their understanding of how to make the most out of creation’s bounty rings true. Natasha Woodcraft has done an amazing job in describing what the earth might have looked like then and how Adam and his family might have lived in it, dealing with every new experience as they come across it. The Wanderer Scorned shows Adam and Eve, themselves outcasts, trying to navigate this new reality and carrying the guilt of what their sin would mean for all of mankind, including their own offspring. It was into that cursed world that Cain and Abel were born. At the same time the earth itself was cursed – with thorns and weeds, predatory animals and insects that could desecrate harvests. Guilt, shame, distrust, jealousy, anger, misunderstanding and lust to name a few. ![]() At that moment mankind became cursed – with physical and emotional pain, with negative emotions that they had never known before. Genesis 3 tells us that Adam and Eve broke covenant with God, and were banished from the garden and His presence and protection. ![]() Exploring the idea that every human being has within them the capacity to do dreadful things, under certain circumstances, driven by wrong emotions, past hurts and long carried pain. Her starting point is ‘why?’ Why did Cain, a man who knew and heard God, murder his brother? Was it just a fit of jealousy over a misjudged sacrifice, or did it go much deeper than that? The story she creates makes Cain a human being just like any one of us. She has taken this story and, using her imagination, created a backdrop for a crime that has been condemned for millennia. In ‘ The Wanderer Scorned’ Natasha Woodcraft has done something few of us would dare to do.
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