... vine could be compared to the original garden or type of vineyard found in Genesis 2:8-17. This passage notes that "The Lord planted a garden in the east, toward Eden" (Gen. 2:8) and "Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the ... earthen or stone wall to protect it from intruders. From this perspective, the Garden of Eden is a special place that is separate from the world and under the dominion of God. The garden functions as a model to which the rest of the world that exists in some form of chaos or discord can ... in s...

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... fix it " (McCarthy 50). Later he tells the child: "He's going to die. We cant share what we have or we'll die too " (52). Under the circumstances, the man's actions may be justified. But there is a danger lurking here. The danger is that engaging in justified violations of the code of the good ... about the survival of the child, but about the survival of the goodness within the child: "But when he bent to see into the boy's face under the hood of the blanket he very much feared that something was gone that could not be put right again " (136). When he tells the boy that ... "Do you thi...

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