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The Monkey Garden In The House On Mango Street

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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East; in Eden…” (Genesis 2:8). The Garden of Eden incorporates into the biblical story of God’s creation of the Earth and fall to sin by Adam and Eve. The Garden, which Bible scholars believe is located in the Middle East, draws connections with the short story The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The Monkey Garden in The House On Mango Street connects parallels and bases its roots within the biblical Garden of Eden due to the interpretation of the monkey and the Monkey Garden in addition to the significance of the actions acted towards the children.

The Monkey Garden and the role of the monkey show similarities with the Garden of Eden. In The House On Mango Street, the monkey …show more content…

“The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” (Genesis 1:12). The Monkey Garden has a direct comparison because of the ability to sustain plants life like “sunflowers”, “cockscombs” ,and “peach trees.” Not only this, the Bible proclaims God’s creation of animals. The chapter of Genesis professes that God “...let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky” (1:20) in conjunction with Sandra Cisnero inserting “dizzy bees” into her story. Another example includes the appearance of the Garden of Eden after the temptation of Eve by the serpent. According to the book of Genesis, when Adam and Eve committed original sin, they lived lives with pain and sorrow. “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field” Genesis (3:17-18). In comparison, the Monkey Garden changed in nature of the monkey moved to Kentucky. The evil of the green cage opened, and original sin released itself into the world. “Flowers stopped obeying the little bricks that kept them from growing beyond their paths. Weeds mixed in. Dead cars appeared overnight like mushrooms.” Chaos and evil overpowered the garden similarly like the world after the first sin was completed. The

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“The Monkey Garden” is a short story by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Esperanza who lives near a fantastic garden. The diction and personification in the story affects how Esperanza breaks free from her childhood and loses her innocence. Esperanza enjoys playing in the garden, but her friend Sally tells her she is too old to play where the children play. Esperanza realizes that “the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem mine either” (Cisneros 2) after her friend Sally plays an unorthodox kissing game with boys at the garden. As a result, Esperanza loses her innocence when they laugh at her for trying to “save” Sally.

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“As I stepped out into the ghetto that the garden of Eden has become and there in an empty lot, I saw the tree of life, abandoned & squatted covered in a cast concrete structures heard the four to the floor of a house beat could feel the bass right through my feet” (Barsky 18) Since Barsky is still illustrating the afterlife, he makes an impressive statement by describing the garden of Eden as abandoned and disregarded. Barsky’s depiction of the Garden of Eden is instead a ghetto that is home to a more urbanized feel of muffled house music and concrete structures. The common imagery that the reader is familiar with in this example, is the religious connotation of the Tree of Life and the Garden of Eden. Most ideas of the afterlife are associated with some sort of religion, but the fact that in this version of the afterlife religion is so blatantly disrespected, it gives the reader pause to think just how different this world

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In John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, the author explores mankind’s endeavor to overcome internal and worldly evil by utilizing biblical allusions and circular prose. One can infer that the novel is a great biblical allusion with the story of Cain and Abel from the Book of Genesis being a reoccurring insinuation. Steinbeck applies these biblical allusions to specify the moral and immoral characters in his novel. For example, Charles Trask receives a “long and crinkled scar” on his forehead that “turns dark brown” while he is filled with a malevolent rage (46). Later on in the story, Cathy Ames is also marked with a scar during a grisly altercation with the pimp she was exploiting.

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In this expressive chapter written by Cisneros, Esperanza is kicked out of the garden when “Sally says go home,” as a result of being told to leave, “she didn’t know why but she has to run away. [She] had to hide [herself] at the other end of the garden” (Cisneros 97). In correlation, the Garden of Eden contains banishment when “God banish[es] him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis). In a similar manner to the Garden of Eden, Cisneros uses banishment. In the story of the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve are banished from the garden due to their disobeying of God’s rules.

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