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    The bare human body is a mystery talked about from the beginning of time. The human body is complex, as is life. It goes through many stages: creation, puberty, sexual peak, and old age. The human body has been studied by many. Leonardo da Vinci had various notebooks filled with his findings. Literary fiction also has an array of stories that captivate an interest with the human body throughout the many stages of life. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the story of Adam and Eve, Brave New World by…

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    Next, a stream came out of the ground, providing water for the earth. That same day, God created man from dust and gave life by, “Breathing into his nostrils the breath of life”. God proceeds to plant a garden, called the Garden of Eden, and placed man in it to till and keep it. Out of the Garden of Eden, there is a river in order to water the…

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    There are many religious connotations in Only Lovers Left Alive, Twilight, and Interview with a Vampire. For instance, the books and the film have common references to the book of Genesis in the bible. Therefore, God creating man from clay can be compared to vampires creating or turning other humans into vampires. As well as, the temptations of Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of knowledge can be related to the vampires and their temptations to avoid feeding from humans. Therefore, in…

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    Vanity In Genesis 1

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    it is lived with God and life without God is vanity. Adam and Eve experienced vanity the moment they stopped believing God. The theology of Genesis 1 is of work which begins with a theology of creation and goes on Genesis 2 where man worked in the garden of Eden. This work brought fulfillment in Genesis 2 and pain in Genesis 3 because God cursed the ground that man works on. Humans males experiences and find their highest us fulfillment in their work (job). Work is where God is omnipotence the…

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    Finally, the boys supposedly leave the island towards the end of the novel just as Adam and Eve have to leave the Garden of Eden (Spitz 28). In Genesis 3, after “the eyes of both of them were opened”, Adam and Eve “realized they were naked” and hide in shame from God (New International Version, Genesis 3:7-8). Subsequently, God discovers Adam and Eve, “banished them from the Garden of Eden” for their sin, and pessimistically ends the story of the Fall with a death sentence for humans: “for dust…

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    Hieronymus was 15th century Dutch painter. The artist showed the Pope art work of painter “Garden of Earthly Delights.” It was a triptych, the first exhibited Adam and Eve in the panel, in the center panel there was a landscape, while in the third panel, there is an image of hell. Leonardo said “As a child I didn’t quite understand what it all…

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    “Eve’s Diary” and “Adams Diary” both describe the biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden and the beginning of original sin. In both stories they first two humans on Earth succumb to eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge, thus changing the world forever. However, even though basis of the narrative is the same they differ fundamentally on many levels. The main difference between the two stories is the narrator, in “Eve’s Diary” Eve describes her experience of the narrative, whereas in…

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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    This shows how Adam and Eve loses their gold by eating from the knowledge tree and has to leave the garden forever. This can relate to Pony since he had to leave his house and went to live in an abandoned church with Johnny while they were running away from the police. Pony and Johnny killed Bob and they were forced to leave their comfort zone just like…

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    Satan is to blame for giving humans temptations but it is their fault for giving into those temptations. There is an excellent example even back in the biblical times: the Garden of Eden story. Eve blamed the snake for convincing her to take the forbidden fruit and Adam blamed Eve for giving him the forbidden fruit. Nobody forced either of them to eat it, they did it upon their own free will. Adam and Eve gave into their sinful…

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    Gary Soto’s vivid imagery and religious allusions recreate an event where sin and guilt leads him to reflect upon his actions as a six-year-old child. In the beginning of A Summer Life, Gary Soto reveals that he has a religious background by quoting that “he knew enough about hell” and that he “was holy in almost every bone”. In addition to his religiously influenced statements, he also states “angels flopping”. The recurrence of allusions from the bible in the introductory passage emphasizes…

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