Abel Magwitch

love and obedience to Him. (Genesis 2:24) Genesis talks about more relationships than just that of Adam and Eve though. For example, the story of Cain and Abel is also the story of the first murder. They were brothers that were birthed from Adam and Eve and their relationship shows the poisonous effect that sin had on the world. Cain kills Abel in a jealous rage after Cain is too proud to offer a proper sacrifice to the Lord. He then follows the murder with attempting to hide it from God.…

In order for the agriculturalists to expand and fulfill their Taker "destiny,” spreading the way of life they believed was right, they had to take land from the herders. This is represented in the story of Cain’s murder of Abel. From here the agricultural revolution took off, and the taker culture expanded, while the smaller leaver culture was almost forgotten, but did not die out. The use of the terms “leavers” and “takers” by Quinn, and his explanation of their historical…

partially disowned his brother, he still has love and care for his that only a sibling could understand. The relation between the two brothers mirrors the relationship between the brothers Cain and Abel in the Bible. In that story, Cain asks God is he supposed to be his brother’s keeper after murdering Abel. In Sonny’s Blue our narrator is worried about his brother wellbeing after he has already disowned him for years. The narrator can’t seem to get his brother off of his mind even as he…

story starts with an “original sin.” The original sin is the father lying to get the job in Washington. The story continues its retelling of the Cain and Abel story with the two brothers, Adam and Charles. When Adam receives favour over Charles, Charles brutally beats him. The original sin continues with Adam’s children, Aron and Cal. Aron becomes Abel and Cal becomes Cain. Thankfully, the cycle ends with Cal who gains forgiveness and a blessing, “timshel” or “thou mayest, from his father. Cal…

evil, as it was in the tale of Cain and Abel. Charles represents Cain, Adam represents Abel, Cathy represents the devil, and when the twins, Cal and Aaron, are born they take the place of Cain and Abel. Throughout the story this theme is shown through Cathy’s consistency of deceptive motives and Charles’ envy of Adam throughout certain events such as when he beats Adam…

Romulus, and now today in our own lives. There are many themes and lessons that come from the Bible and sibling rivalry occurs in several stories throughout the book. First with Adam and Eve’s sons, Cain and Abel. In perhaps what is the ultimate example of sibling rivalry, Cain murders his brother Abel in a fit of jealous rage. God had accepted Abel’s offer of meat, but not Cain’s offer of fruits and grains. Despite God’s warning to Cain against sin, Cain lets an all consuming jealousy towards…

representation of evil. Jealousy leads to hatred. Jealousy brings out hate, which allows individuals to either commit murder, fight, lie, or even steal. One can find jealousy and hate intertwine with one another in the Holy Bible. Cain, the brother of Abel, and Joseph’s brothers, all had jealousy and hate built in their heart against their own flesh and blood brother. This was jealousy of worship. The first book in the Holy Bible, Genesis, speaks about ways one must please God. If he or she…

When I first heard Billie Holiday sing Strange Fruit, I was immediately saddened by her tone. It instantly gripped my attention because she started the song off referring to a “strange fruit.” This reference automatically made me listen closely to see what “fruit” she was speaking of. The next line talked about blood on the trees’ leaves and roots which instantly stirred up feeling of sadness. This song describes the lynching of African Americans in the South. I asked myself, what could a man…

Strange Fruit In the mid 1930’s, a New York teacher by the name Abel Meeropol was stunned by an eerie photograph taken at a lynching on August 7, 1930. The revolting glimpse of the lifeless bodies hanging helplessly on a maple tree was said to “haunt” Meeropol “for days.” The sight disturbed him so much, it led him to write a poem titled, “Strange Fruit” in 1937, which was published and later converted into a song reperformed by Billie Holiday in 1939. “Strange Fruit” was significant to the…

Beowulf is a great epic that took place in the Anglo Saxon time period. From the start of time, the battle between good and evil has been dated. Beowulf faces three main battles in the epic Beowulf. One battle was against Grendel and another, Grendel’s mother. The reasons behind these battles were good versus evil. Within the characters of this epic, are many mythical elements. In this epic, Beowulf is considered an embodiment of the best the race can produce while Grendel and Grendel’s mother…