Reading Response (Auerbach on Cushing): In chapter one of Explorers in Eden by Jerold Auerbach titled “Cushing in Zuni”, Auerbach gives a detailed summary of Frank Hamilton Cushing’s five year experience in the Zuni Pueblo. I was surprised to learn that Cushing was only a young teen when he came to Zuni. Additionally, I was shocked to read that Cushing had no formal training in Anthropology… in fact he didn’t even graduate from Cornell rather he worked at a very young age at the Smithsonian. Thus, my and many others critiques of Cushing stem back to his lack of anthropological training and Native American education.
The garden God had put Adam and Eve name was the Garden of Eden. One day Adam and Eve was in the garden when Eve force Adam to eat from the tree god say don’t eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. Then god call out to Adam and ask where are you hiding and Adam say I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid because I was naked so I hid myself. Then God asked, “Who told you that you were naked?
Kelly Quick Mr. Boesch AP Language & Composition 23 February 2023 1996 Q2 (Soto’s Guilt) They say it was the snake that lured Eve to the Garden of Eden, to taste the apple of knowledge, and to damn humanity. But why, exactly, did Eve listen? Had Eve responsibilities or some goal in pursuit, surely she couldn’t bother with such a trivial, obvious matter. Yet Gary Soto, at the liberated age of six, found himself in the same, vulnerable, and dangerous state as Eve had: boredom.
From a young age, Steinbeck had encountered many hardships. Based off a few of his hardships, he created his novel East of Eden. It is told through the eyes of Olivia Hamilton’s son, who is as everyone comes to realize, John Steinbeck himself. Through Steinbeck’s experiences, the reader learns about two generations who deal with evil goodness within their families.
Adam and Eve had a perfect Garden of Eden, until Eve ate the apple and contaminated the garden. In being tricked by the snake, Eve betrayed God’s word. Mankind has often betrayed others because of the darkness in their heart. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses Phineas as a sacrificial lamb to portray Gene’s savage side and demonstrate that peace can never be achieved at a worldwide level until man accepts the darkness in his own heart.
Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden which was a place of youth and innocence, much like nature and the flower in the poem. Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge. Eve ate the fruit from the tree, committing the first sin. Then Eve tempted Adam into eating the fruit also. In the poem, the Garden of Eden “sank to grief”.
Ayn Rand is a talented author whose use of literary elements makes her novels all the more interesting. A significant example of this is when Rand articulates the use of the story Adam and Eve throughout the chapter by conveying explicit meanings and making connections to help the reader better understand the situation that the characters are facing as they enter into a new phase of their lives with more knowledge than they had before. Adam and Eve is a tale from the bible depicting the events that occurred the first time humans were created and the first time they sinned. The story begins when the protagonists, Adam and Eve, make a mistake by taking a bite of the apple they were told not to as it would give them “the knowledge of good and evil,” (Fairchild).
However, throughout the book, trickery and deception play a key role in the tales told. The third chapter shows the first ever act of deception, which takes place in the Garden of Eden. The “craftiest” animal of all, the serpent, tricks Adam and Eve into doing exactly what God told them not to do--eating forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:1-13) From the moment Eve ate the fruit, we are overwhelmed with stories of deception and trickery. One of the most significant and well known tales of deception in Genesis is the story of Jacob.
The story of Adam and Eve serves as a tale on how mankind and womankind were created and placed on Earth. The story takes place in the Garden of Eden, and because the woman was deceived by the Serpent, both the women and the man were cast down to earth. The Serpent deceived the women by allowing her to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree, as she also influenced the man, God punished both. “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16 NIV) and that He allowed “Adam (to) named his wife Eve” (Genesis 3:20 NIV).
The snake itself is an embodiment of sin, or in a biblical sense, the devil himself. This novel has outright biblical references strewn throughout its entirety. There are constant ties to it through its characters names and scenarios that take place, in this section where Ruth May is bitten by a snake and dies, the snake is a representation of sin, and the sin that plagued Ruth May until she was overcome by it, and in this case experienced physical death. Within Genesis in the King James version of the bible, we are met with the classic story of Adam and Eve, where Eve is met by a serpent in the garden who tempts her to take a bite of an apple from the tree of knowledge. In the same sense that Eve was coerced by the devil, in this case in the form of a serpent, to bite the fruit, a process in which would start the possibility of spiritual death, Ruth May was bitten by the snake, which would start the possibility of physical death.
It is noteworthy that this story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is the foundation of the religion with the largest number of followers worldwide. Why does it continue to resonate with so many people even today? The reason is that this utopia contains archetypes that reflect the collective unconscious that is found across all cultures. This is the result of universal themes in this story about humanity’s needs and desires that we still see occurring in our society today. The story of Genesis contains three archetypal characteristics that illustrate these patterns that still demonstrate humanity’s needs.
After comparing and contrasting, “The Earth on Turtle’s Back,” to Genesis 1, one can see that both of these creation stories have two distinctive tales about how the Earth was
Adam and Eve are ‘born’ in the Garden of Eden, an ethereal place where they want for nothing, or at least should want for nothing. This of
In both stories the serpent is depicted as a negative force. It is the thing that denies humanity of immortality or some pleasure. In the Bible the serpent is a sign of temptation. The serpent convinces Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. This was after God had told her and Adam that they were not allowed
Floating about in all types of literature, there are many legends as to how the earth was created; these legends are known as creation myths. A creation myth offers answers to questions that ask how the earth was created, and explains the social customs of today as well as the workings of the natural world by telling an elaborate story. The Cherokee Indians have spread their beliefs on this topic throughout generations through oral tradition. Recent authors have taken these myths to paper to preserve history and to spread them even further around the world. “How the World Was Made” is a creation myth that not only offers an abundance of information regarding the origin of earth, but also supports the social traditions of today’s society and attempts to explain the intangible, natural workings of the world.
