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East of Eden

Part IV Slide2

Cal

Understands father and wants to help him

Wants to make himself good

“’My father is good,’ he said. ‘I want to make it up to him because I am not good’” (481)

Realizes he has the choice

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imshel

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He chooses to overcome sinSlide3

Abra

Forms bond with Lee

Understands

Aron’s

need for a mother

“’I figure

Aron

needed a mother more than Cal did. And I think he always blamed his father’” (496)

Transfers the idyllic image of mother onto

Abra

Abra

begins to understand Cal

“’I’m not good either’” (500)Slide4

Cal

Suspense

“It wasn’t

Aron’s

day. It was Cal’s day. He had carved this day out for himself and he wanted it. He meant to have it” (538).

Adam rejects money

Rejects Cal

“”I would have been so happy if you could have given me- well, what your brother has- pride in the thing he’s doing, gladness in his progress. Money, even clean money, doesn’t stack up with that’” (544)Slide5

Cal

Lee serves as catalyst between Cal and Adam

“’He couldn’t help it, Cal. That’s his nature. It was the only way he knew. He didn’t have a choice. But you have. Don’t you hear me? You

hace

a choice’” (544)

Timshel

Choice to understand Adam and his reaction

With Slide6

Cal

“She saw the face f the blond and beautiful boy, his eyes mad with shock. She heard his ugly words aimed not so much at her as at himself. And she say his dark brother leaning against the door and laughing” (548)

Cal becomes the

C

ain figure

Tries to ruin

Aron’s

goodness

Due to rejection

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With rejection comes anger, with anger comes crime, with crime comes guilt- that is the story of man

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Steinbeck Slide7

Kate

“Well, had anything or anybody ever really touched Kate- really got through and soiled her? Certainly not.” (512)

No remorse or feeling

Thinks she is still beautiful and untouchable

“The smart one- the dark- one bothered her. He was like Charles. She had respected Charles…” (512)

Wants to get back at Cal and trick

Aron

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Kate

“They had something she lacked, and she didn’t know what

i

t was” (553).

He [Cal] didn’t have to speak. The glint of his eyes said, ‘You missed something. They had something and you missed it’” (554)

Even in death tries to corrupt the innocence and purity of

Aron

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Aron

Doesn’t appreciate the love his father has and Cal yearns for it

Feels his father is a failure and liar

Doesn’t see he lied to shield sons

“’Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that’s not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. Then dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white’” (493)

Causes

Aron

to want true purity and goodness in retaliation to his mother’s evil Slide10

Aron

Tries to create purity in his life

Projects it onto

Abra

“and

Abra

- well, of

Abra

he made his immaculate dream and, having created her, fell in love with her” (524)

Idealizes her

Becomes antithesis to Kate Slide11

Cal

Drives

Aron

away

“’Am I supposed to look after him?’” (564)

Biblical allusion

Cain responded “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Murdered

Aron’s

innocence when took him to Kate’sSlide12

Cal

“Maybe you have a little more energy than most, just energy, but outside of that you’re very like all the other snot-nosed kids. Are you trying to attract dignity and tragedy to yourself because your mother was a whore?”

Some people irredeemably evil and incorruptibly good

He is like all humans and has a choice Slide13

Cal

Shift in hope for

Aron

now for Cal

Abra

shares a bond with Cal

“He [

Aron

] wanted the story and he wanted it to come out his way. He couldn’t stand to have it come out any other way” (577)Slide14

Adam

Static character

“’Oh my poor darling!’” (561)

In spite of her cruelty

Still idealizes

Aron

and refuses to let go of the dream

Aron

the same and runs from the truth Slide15

Aron

Juxtaposition of life and death

“It’s a pleasant little stream that gurgles through the

Alisal

against the

Gabilan

Mountains on the east of the Salinas Valley. The water bumbles over round stones and washes the polished roots of the trees that hold it in” (591).

Adam feeling better

Lee planning his garden

“A black weariness fell on Lee, a hopelessness that pressed his shoulders down” (593).

Life is always in a state of flux

Unending cycle of life and death

“God, how I hate a coward!” (593)

Aron

for running away Slide16

Timshel

“I killed my brother. I’m a murderer” (597).

“’He did a thing in anger, Adam, because he thought you had rejected him. The result of his anger is that his brother and your son is dead…Your son is marked with guilt out of himself…Don’t crush him with rejection’” (602)

Adam must give Cal his blessing so he can make the choice to live a good life

Adam gives Cal ultimate gift of generosity and goodness

Lee catalyst for all resolutions

Cal and

Abra

being together

Forgiveness of Adam

Forgiveness of himself [Cal]