The+Garden+of+Eden

Just Another Day in Paradise Background Story: God creates man once he is finished with his seven days of creation. He then plants the Garden of Eden to the east where he places the man that he creates. Every tree good for sight and able to produce food is placed in the Garden of Eden. One river runs through it and divides it up into four sections. God tells the man that he can eat any tree in the garden apart from the one with the knowledge of good and evil. In his attempts to make a "helper" for the man, he creates every beast on Earth and places it in the garden. Once he discovers that isn't enough, he forms a woman from the bone of the man. A serpent tricks the woman into eating from the tree of knowledge, and she convinces the man to do so as well. God, angry at them, punishes them and casts them out of the Garden of Eden and to the east and then places a cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the Garden of Eden.


 * The theme of this story is the basic idea that there are consequences for disobeying what is told to you. Adam and Eve disobeyed God, creating sin and banishing themselves from the Garden of Eden.

Allusions:


 * Novel || * "The Playmaker" by Thomas Keneally
 * "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" by Louis de Bernieres
 * "The Spire" by William Golding ||
 * Poem || * "Before the Snake" by Nathaniel Tarn ||
 * Play || * "Hamlet" by Shakespeare ||

Allusions in literature that refer to a Garden of Eden describe a location that seems perfect. In the bible, the Garden of Eden is a place that God designed to be ideal. Many different animals live there. Every tree was "pleasant to the sight and good for food". Just as so, a "Garden of Eden" in an allusion could describe a perfect place without sin or suffering. if someone is alluded to as a serpent, they could be evil, mischievous, and untrustworthy. Adam or Eve could be a person of innocence.

Before the Snake  William Tarne Sitting, facing the sun, eyes closed. I can hear the sun. I can hear the bird life all around for miles. It flies through us and around us, it takes up all space, as if we were not there, as if we had never interrupted this place. The birds move diorami- cally through our heads, from ear to ear. What are they doing, singing in this luminous fall. It is marvelous to be so alone, the two of us, in this garden desert. Forgotten, but remembering ourselves as no one will ever remember us. The space between the trees, the bare ground-sand between them, you can see the land's skin which is so much home. We cannot buy or sell this marvelous day. I can hear the sun and, within the sun, the wind which comes out of the world's lungs from immeasurable depth; we catch only a distant echo. Beyond the birds there are per- sons carrying their names like great weights. Just think: carrying X your whole life, or Y, or Z. Carrying all that A and B and C around with you, having to be A all the time, B, or C. Here you can be the sun, the pine, the bird. You can be the breathing. I can tell you, I think this may be Eden. I think it is.

In this poem, the author speaks of what he finds as a very ideal place. He describes it as his paradise- a Garden of Eden. Just as it is a symbol of beauty and perfection in the biblical story, the author is relating the garden to his paradise where everything is fine and there is no need for worry.

De, Bernières Louis. //The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts//. London: Vintage, 2008. Print.

//Genesis //. //The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version //. New York: World, 1962. Print.

Golding, William. //The Spire. // New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. Print.

Keneally, Thomas. //The Playmaker //. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Print.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare). Simon & Schuster; New Folger Edition, 2003.

Tarne, William. "Before the Snake" //Poem Hunter //. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.