Garden+of+Eden

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Summary:

 * **Title** || **Book** || **Summary** ||
 * Forbidden Fruit || Genesis || The serpent deceived the woman and the man to eat off the Tree of Knowledge. This in the end caused consequences for all humankind. ||
 * Original Sequence || Booth || This poem orders the sequence of events that occurred in the __garden__ of Eden. ||
 * Eden is that Old-Fashioned House || Dickinson || This poem describes Eden in a more informal way, it talks about how we took Eden for granted and just it expected it to always be there and ours. ||
 * Extracts from Adam's Diary || Twain || Described through a sequence of events, this diary entry shows Adam's point of view on the __garden__ of Eden and Eve. ||
 * New World || Walcott || This poem is imaging what Adam and Eve felt after they had to leave the garden of Eden and enter a whole new world. ||

**Discussion Questions:**
**1) What does God mean when he says that the Earth will be cursed because of Adam and Eve? ( Genesis)** **2) Why does time symbolize in this story? ( Booth)** **3) Why do you think that the author is comparing Eden to an old-fashioned house? ( Dickinson)** **4) Why do you think it is important to see Adam's point of view of Eve and the Garden of Eden?( Twain)** **5) What do you think the author meant when he named this poem " New World"?**

Supplementary Material:

 * * How are all these different stories different? The same? **
 * * Pay attention and take notice to how the different authors describe God. How does this change the story line? **
 * * How is the "Extracts from Adam's Diary" different from the "Forbidden Fruit"? **

**Can you tell how the authors of these paintings perceive Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden? If so how do they perceive them differently?**