Garden+of+Eden

=The Garden of Eden=

Summary:

 * < = Title = ||< = Book/Author = ||< = Summary = ||
 * < //Forbidden Fruit// ||< Genesis ||< In this story, the woman, who is later named Eve, is deceived by a serpent to eat the fruits from the tree of knowledge. Then the woman influences Adam to also eat the fruits from this forbidden tree. God then calls to the man and soon realizes he has eaten from the tree of knowledge because he now knows he is naked. God gets very angry because the man, woman, and serpent have so clearly defied him. He curses the serpent of all the cattle and creatures of the wild, makes him crawl on him belly, and puts enmity between the serpent and woman. God gave labor in childbearing to the woman and to the man he created labor in cultivating the land and from the labor of the land he will get food. ||
 * < "Original Sequence" ||< Philip Booth ||< This is a poetic sequence of the story //Forbidden Fruit.// ||
 * "Eden is that old-fashioned House" || Emily Dickinson || Poem about one's perspective of the Garden of Eden. Eden is being portrayed as an old house. ||
 * < "Extracts from Adam's Diary" ||< Mark Twain ||< In this short story, Mark Twain describes each of Adam's and the woman's, whom he refers to as the creature then later Eve, days in the Garden of Eden. We begin to get the days of the week and the day of rest, Sunday. ||
 * < "New World" ||< Derek Walcott ||< Poetic sequence of life for Adam and Eve after they are condemned from the Garden of Eden. ||

Discussion Questions:
> Eve bit, gave seconds to his mouth, > and then they had no minute left to lose." > What do you think this first line means? (Remember that God expelled Adam and Eve before they could eat the tree of life and live forever.) > on its forked tree. > The snake admired labor, > it would not leave him alone" > What does this line mean? >
 * 1) Do you think the punishment for the man, serpent, or woman was too harsh? Why?
 * 2) "But he said, 'The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; what if he now reaches out and takes fruit from the tree of life also, and eats it and lives for ever?''' After reading this quote, if he made men and women in his likeness, why would he not want them to eat from the trees?
 * 3) The man and his wife hid from God after they ate from the tree in the middle of the garden, and they also were afraid because they were naked, and made clothes from fig-leaves to cover themselves. What do you think this symbolizes?
 * 4) "Time was the apple Adam ate
 * 1) " Winesap, King, ripen in the sun, McIntosh and Northern Spy fall one by one ripen to die" This is what God was humming to himself. Why do you think he was humming to himself?
 * 2) What do you think the mood of this poem is?
 * 3) Why do you think the poem referred to Adam as being old? Whereas other work of arts, or books of the bible referring about Adam, portray him as being young.
 * 4) Why do you think the author capitalizes the words: //House//, //Day// and //Door//?
 * 5) What does the title mean about Eden?
 * 6) Adam says that death hasn’t entered the Park which is pity on some accounts, why do you think he feels this way?
 * 7) How do you think the author feels towards men and women and their roles?
 * 8) How do you think the author feels toward this New World? How do you feels towards the New World?
 * 9) "The snake? It would not rust

Supplementary Material:

 * “Forbidden Fruit” in the book of Genesis, is the original story of The Garden of Eden. This story is specific and old-fashioned compared to the story of “Original Sequence”.
 * In Philip Booth's story "Original Sequence", the story is more visual and easier to understand compared to the Genesis story.
 * In Emily Dickinson's story "Eden is that old-fashioned House", it is describing Eden, and it doesn't have many details about it and it is vague.
 * In Mark Twain's story "Extracts from Adam's Diary", it is describing The Garden of Eden more modernly than the original.
 * In Derek Walcott’s story //New Word,// this story is explaining in a poetic form. This story is explaining the new world. The other stories didn't explain the new world as much.

The Garden of Eden. Pere Mates The Garden of Eden. Thomas Cole 1828

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Study Guide/Quiz Questions:

 * 1) What will happen when Adam and Eve eat from the tree in the middle of the Garden?
 * 2) Why did God banish Adam from the Garden?
 * 3) Who did Eve say deceived her into eating from the tree?
 * 4) What did they see when their eyes opened? Then what did they do?
 * 5) How did God come? What did he do while he walked?
 * 6) What is Eden?
 * 7) How does Adam feel towards Eve (the creature) at the beginning?
 * 8) What made Adam eat the fruit?
 * 9) What is Cain?
 * 10) How did all flesh have to be sown after Eden?
 * 11) What would Adam and the snake share?