... represents the relationship of Cain with God. The Fall of Man starts in Chapter Three of Genesis, but East of Eden recreates the Fall of Man by incorporating Genesis Four. When Earth was created, God planted many plants in the Garden of Eden and in the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Rather than physically preventing him from eating the apple, God gave Adam the choice, and thus the possibility of choosing ... based on our choice there will be significant consequences. The relationship between Cain and Abel is illustrated in East ...

• Word Count: 2049
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... if they were to go against his wishes. However, in most cases, God had gone back on his word. For example, when Eve and Adam eat the forbidden fruit they are only kicked out of the Garden of Eden rather than having their own lives taken away from them, which God had promised. Another example is when God instructs Abraham to take his only son ... well. This is evident in chapter twenty two of the Book of Genesis in which Abraham's only son Isaac is saved at the last moment by the Lord's word. God had instructed Abraham, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the la...

• Word Count: 1630
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... the characters in the Garden. The tree of life and death, the eternal fountain of purity flowing. However, the parallels to the biblical Garden of Eden can also be determined as quite the opposite of their equivalents in the Bible. Instead of a tree of life; the shrub of death. Instead of the innocent companions; fearful accomplices. Instead of a benevolent God; a malevolent Father, his bent purposes imposed on the innocent and unsuspecting inhabitants of the Garden. The garden and its central highlight, the purple flowered shrub, resembling the Garden of Eden and the ... passionate mus...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... days in Paradise. This assigned work amounts to tending the growth of the garden to prevent overgrowth, and general maintenance of its appearance. By having a job to do for their Creator, Adam and Eve feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of each day, and in completing their assignment, they finish happy in their mutual help and mutual love, as evidenced by their prayer before retiring. Work ... find wholeness, and they understand themselves most clearly in the context of that love. This understanding allows for a further development of their sense of self-worth because, in the happ...

• Word Count: 2408
• Approx Pages: 10
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... brought it to our attention. Man had no knowledge of evil until God told us of it. Even in the Garden man didn't know evil. He did not know that eating from the one tree in the center of Eden was evil until God told him. So why would God put the tree there in the first place if he didn't want man to eat ... it? He knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit and he knew what would happen when they did. He had to know because he knows all. So what was his reason for putting evil with man, why was the tree placed in the Garden of Eden? It was put there so man would have a choice between ......

• Word Count: 2336
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... to another due, Labor to admit You, but Oh! To no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captive, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love You, and would be loved fain, But am betrothed unto Your enemy; Divorce me, untie or break that knot again; Take me to You, imprison me, for I, Except You enthrall ... submit to God, reason acts irrational. Love is the subject of line nine "yet I dearly love You, and would be loved fain." This line indicates a turn in the sonnet, where the first eight lines presented the problem the next five will propose to offer a solution to...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School