Adventures of Bonnie Day

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The Adventures of Bonnie Day is a book, written by Nathan Rahl. The book is used to subtly teach young men with the Gift certain lessons about life through the adventures of the main characters, Bonnie, Jessup, and Geraldine. Is also a primer to Prophecy. The book is writen in many different languages that are found in the Wizard's Keep. Richard Rahl is the only surviving wizard who had receieved the book, all the others had been killed.

The Adventures of Bonnie Day is given to Richard Rahl by his foster father George Cypher as a gift for learning to read. Richard felt that the heroes did many ill considered things that were to be learned from so as not to be repeated revealing to Sister Verna Sauventreen that the book did have value in response to her destroying a boy's copy of the book because it had no intellectual or any other kind of value.

The teachings of faith exemplified in the book when the three heroes, Bonnie, Jessup, and Geraldine, escort a group of injured people across a poison river is later used by Richard Rahl and Sister Verna Sauventreen in their journey through the Valley of the Lost. Richard and Verna place their faith in their horses, similar to the faith the injured people placed in their congruently named heroes, to lead them out of the valley when Verna is unable to sense the way, saving them from being trapped forever in illusions created from their own memories.