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Analysis Of East Of Eden By John Steinbeck

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In the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck the main characters include two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks. The whole story is focused around the biblical stories Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. The book takes place in Salinas Valley California,US during the time of WW1. The point of view is actually from the author John Steinbeck and he is talking about the two families in the book, which he himself belongs to the side of the Hamiltons being his mother was a Hamilton.The main idea of the book is “timshel” or the choosing of your own destiny. This particular theme goes along with the biblical story Cain and Abel. Abel was seen to be good and moral while Cain was the evil despicable one. Cain ends up betraying and killing Abel when God
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