Abel Meeropol

between siblings, the stories of Jacob’s reconciliation with his estranged brother Esau (Gen ) and Joseph forgiveness of his brothers (Gen 45: 1-28). Prior to these isolated incidents the previous mention of siblings rivalry was the story of Cain and Abel (Gen), which ultimately ends with fratricide. Even within the reconciliation narratives found in Genesis, the only positive one discovered is in Genesis 45: 1-28, the other Esau’s forgiveness of Jacob ends on a bittersweet note. Despite having…

Expectations Essay The novel, Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens specifies Pip’s experience through several stages to test his expectations on life struggles. When transitioning through society, Pip becomes oblivious of the meaning of social status and wealth until he falls in love with Estella. His desire for Estella causes him to reject his friends and contradicts his personal values and morals. During the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip is curious and ambitious; As a…

Chapters 9 & 10: Pip, upon returning home from Satis House, lies to Joe, his sister, and his uncle about the events at Satis House. After mulling over his guiltiness for a while, he confesses to Joe in the smithy the lie, and tells the true tale of his trip to Satis House. Joe is surprised that Pip would lied, but nevertheless offers him some advice: to stay away from the upper class. Pip keeps Joe’s advice at heart, but can only think about how ordinary Estella would perceive Joe, and dreams…

True West by Sam Shepard shows us a snippet of a family’s dynamic in an interesting way. There is no clear statement that the two brothers, Lee-the eldest and Austin-the younger, are jealous of each other but Shepard is able to convey this through their interactions. An interesting way Shepard shows this is through Austin, the more stable and successful brother of the two with a career goal and a family of his own, getting easily lost in Lee’s stories of his life in the dessert. There is an…

The story of Cain and Abel played a major part in the theme of East of Eden. The biblical tale of brotherhood jealousy was used to emulate the relationships between the “C-Characters” and the “A-Characters”. The story of Cain and Abel depicted two brothers fighting for the affection of God, which ends with Abel being murdered by Cain. Steinbeck uses this story to create the narrative that ends up pitting the “C-Characters” against the “A-Characters”, in which the A-Characters are usually on the…

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…