Summer Reading Assignment Part 1 1. The general setting of East of Eden is the Salinas Valley, California. This story also takes place in Connecticut as well. 2. The protagonist of the story is Adam Trask. In the beginning when he was a young teenager, John Steinbeck described him as obedient and non-violent. 3. An important intellectual conflict in the book is between Adam and his brother Charles when they are teenagers. Charles was always fighting him, mainly out of jealousy, and purposely
East of Eden John Steinbeck In the late nineteenth century, two different families move into farmlands in northern California. Samuel Hamilton, from Ireland is very respected by all the people in town. He works very hard and has brilliant ideas but due to the location of his farm, he never becomes wealthy. Him and his wife, Liza raised nine admirable children and although they were new to California, they were all a suitable fit for Salinas
pessimistic or blindly optimistic. The idealistic of the two often creates a false conception so quixotic that reality can never suffice, while the negative individual, skeptical of all goodness, forms a general distrust of the world. In John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, both Adam and Aron Trask, blinded by their innate goodness, are unable to see or understand the flaws in others. In their naivety, they assume that all men and women are decent and good-hearted, much like themselves, and both men create idealistic
S.O.A.P.S.Tone-“East Of Eden” I. Speaker- The Speaker isn’t really known throughout the story. East of Eden is told in third person and the speaker resembles John Steinbeck himself. But throughout the story the narrative role is shifted through a few characters for a small period of time. II. Occasion- Mainly the Salinas Valley in Northern California. * Larger-Caleb tried to overcome temptation. * Immediate-Caleb tries to overcome his temptations to be favored by his father
East of Eden - The Gift of Free Will An excellent benefit of choosing to major in English is that it has allowed me four years to dig deeply into my love of the written word. This involves looking beyond the surface of literature and studying its effects in the course of my everyday life. Some books are easy to read quickly, enjoy, and forget, but others exert an influence that is not easily discarded or forgotten. In my mental library, the classic American novel East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
most famous novels, East of Eden, is a story of Steinbeck’s family history. The narrator in the book is Steinbeck himself, the grandson of Samuel Hamilton and the son of Olive Hamilton and Ernest Steinbeck. While the narrator does not have any particular significance to the events that occur in East of Eden, he is present for all of them due to his family connection. The novel uses third person omniscient, third person limited, and first person points of view. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck not
Inner conflict is a problem that one’s self can only solve. In John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, one of the many protagonists, Caleb (Cal) Trask, has to fight his own inner demons. Caleb believes that he is evil, has grown up without a mother, and believes that his brother’s death is his fault. Adam Trask is a wealthy man from East who moved to the West in search of a new life, and in that new life his wife Cathy Trask (Kate), gives birth to two beautiful twin boys, Caleb and Aron. Aron is
thou”, indicating God’s order to conquer sin. The last and oldest translation of this passage was in Hebrew, and in it, Lee found the words timshel which means “thou mayest.” This meant that Cain only possessed the potential to conquer sin. In East of Eden, Steinbeck incorporates the idea of timshel through the actions of his characters, the debate of nature versus nurture, and the characters’ willingness to be forgiven. Cal, a main character and the twin brother of Aron, stumbled through the novel
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is a book filled with biblical allusions. From the constant references to the biblical story of Cain and Abel to the constant use of the Hebrew word “timshel.” The correspondence of the names (C and A) and the similar story lines prove that Steinbeck was using the Bible as the main allusion for East of Eden. Yet it is the end of the book that wraps up the allusion and clarifies Steinbeck’s theme because the finishing piece of East of Eden is a close to exact copy of
Sunny Patel East Of Eden 1. What uniquely American qualities are present in this novel? This novel shows how everyone hopes to make it big and get rich at this time in the US. People are focused towards becoming rich quick and ready to invest money where ever possible. Another quality is the idea of trying new bold ideas that no ones ever done before. For example Adam tried to ship lettuce across the country in ice trains to supply lettuce to the northeast all the times of the year. He took