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    indicate them it was necessary to point (Márquez‚ p1).” This quotation is found in the very first page of the novel‚ establishing Macondo as an Eden-like village by recalling the biblical tale of Adam naming the plants and animals. The representation of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán as Adam and Eve‚ who were exiled from the Garden of Eden after eating from the Tree of Knowledge‚ emphasises this

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    A Poison Tree

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    that the foe takes from the speaker’s “garden”. In reality‚ this means that the foe purposefully provokes the speaker. The extended metaphor in “A Poison Tree” successfully links a tree with anger. Poets use allusions to refer to famous literary works or famous people. In “A Poison Tree”‚ Blake alludes to the story of Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis. He does this to display the sins of anger and temptation. In stanza four the poem says “And into my garden stole when the night veiled a pole:

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    the evils that killed him. With lines like “the noose about his neck was already suffocating him‚” shows that the rope itself is evil. A snake in many cases is seen as evil‚ and in the bible the snake is the one who tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to eat an apple from the tree. The snake in the story of Adam and Eve suffocated those two from ever having a

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    Eden Harris Harris‚ 1 British Literature Mrs. Schmidt Choice and Consequence John Milton’s Paradise Lost and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress are both books that share the relationship of choices and consequences. Milton’s Paradise Lost is about the beginning of the world (Genesis)‚ the creation of man‚ and the fall. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is about the spiritual journey of a man named Christian‚ who is scared of being condemned to death and leaves his city to try and find a place where

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    Interpretation of Genesis

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    Andrew Javorka Intro to Biblical Studies Paper 2 The interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve from Genesis is quite widely accepted to its readers today. It begins with God creating land‚ water‚ and then man (Adam). God then created the garden in Eden filled with “every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food‚ the tree of life‚ and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:9). God warned Adam saying that he could eat from every tree except the tree of knowledge of good

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    She Unnames Them Analysis

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    The book “She Unnames Them” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a story about Eve in the garden of Eden and her attempts to unname all the creatures in the garden. Eve discusses the animal’s reactions to the names they were previously given and how they behave when she unnames them.The story discusses the various animals’ reactions to their unnaming and how they depart from the labels given to them. “These verbally talented individuals insisted that their names were important to them‚ and flatly refused to part

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    civilization. In the story of Adam and Eve‚ God told the couple that he had everything they needed‚ all they wanted to know and understand. God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. His one regulation‚ Eve could not follow. The Garden of Eden had a “forbidden” tree. The Forbidden Tree had a forbidden fruit. God told Adam and Eve to not‚ absolutely NOT eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.

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    fruit that both Adam and Eve ate without reparations in their mind is similar to infidelity. To expand‚ Adam and Eve fell victim to temptation after witnessing the fruit in all its glory and so Adam and Eve ate the fruit of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. Despite the warnings and commands by God to not eat the Forbidden Fruit‚ they still did because they simply couldn’t resist. As the story goes‚ they ultimately opposed the words of God and indulged in immoral pleasure (“Adam and Eve”‚ n.d.).

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    Paradise Lost

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    PARADISE LOST ~ A BRIEF OVERVIEW In the mid-seventeenth century‚ John Milton was a successful poet and political activist. He wrote scathing pamphlets against corruption in the Anglican Church and its ties to King Charles. In Milton’s day Puritanism meant having politically radical views. And at one point Milton was actually jailed for recording them on paper. Paradise Lost‚ as much as anything‚ is a series of arguments put forth by the characters‚ which in turn ultimately expresses Milton’s personal

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    The differences mainly revolve around the theme of forgiveness and blame. In the Judo-Christian version of the Adam and Eve story‚ many tend to blame Eve for deceiving Adam into eating the forbidden fruit. For deceiving Adam‚ Eve is given the harsh curse of having to bare children due to disobeying God’s word. However‚ in the Quran‚ Hawa does not deceive Adam into eating the apple. Satan interacts with Adam instead of Hawa in the Quran and rather than Hawa eating the fruit first then later giving

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