... my fellow classmates, it would be John Steinbeck's East of Eden. East of Eden parallels Genesis times, with a traditional good versus evil story line. The profound depth of the novel leaves one with knowledge and insight for everyday life. East of Eden is the most stimulating novel I have ever read. It is set in the early twentieth century, a time of hardships and a specific struggle for identity. Steinbeck gives ... the readers Cathy, the incarnation of evil. He symbolically has Adam as the protagonist of the novel. Cathy fights against the traditional role of women and is determined to...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... my fellow classmates, it would be John Steinbeck's East of Eden. East of Eden parallels Genesis times, with a traditional good versus evil story line. The profound depth of the novel leaves one with knowledge and insight for everyday life. East of Eden is the most stimulating novel I have ever read. It is set in the early twentieth century, a time of hardships and a specific struggle for identity. Steinbeck gives ... the readers Cathy, the incarnation of evil. He symbolically has Adam as the protagonist of the novel. Cathy fights against the traditional role of women and is determined to...

• Word Count: 258
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... man can affect the battle between good and evil by his choice. Steinbeck discovered through the novel the importance of choice in every man. Lee's exploration of the Hebrew word timshel shows that man can truly affect his life. The one flaw in East of Eden, as most critics agree, is Cathy. Steinbeck describes Cathy as being born evil, so she did not have a choice ... . However, this flaw makes East of Eden more realistic because perfection would make the story seem fabricated. Cathy is the exception to the rule. It may just be that ... Steinbeck did not understand Cathy enough to truly ...

• Word Count: 483
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... sparks Cain's jealousy by preferring Abel's sacrifice of a fine lamb to Cain's sacrifice of grain. This enrages Cain, and he becomes jealous of his older brother. This leads Cain to kill his brother out of enraged anger. In a parallel in East of Eden, Cyrus Trask sparks his younger son Charles's jealousy by preferring his older sons' gift of a puppy to Charles's gift of a knife. After hearing this, the young ... Charles proceeds to severely beat his brother out of anger. This is the beginning of the difficult relationship between the two brothers. We learn ... Adam and Charles. The Cai...

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School