comaparative between green gulch and genesis
Sohaib Akram
Ms. Aquilina
ENG 3U1-05
12 February 2014
One Act, Grave Repercussions:
Characteristics of the Nature of Evil and its Consequences in Genesis and Green Gulch.
Evil in its most general context is anything that is profoundly immoral and malevolent. In Green Gulch by Loren Eisley and The First Sin and Its Punishment; Genesis 3 the nature of evil has many characteristics and is shown to have a lot of consequences. Green Gulch is a short story about an isolated and solitary little boy who suffers from many severe repercussions due to his exposure to an evil and an immoral act. The First Sin and Its Punishment is a biblical reading about Adam and Eve and how they get tempted by the serpent into eating the fruit. Both stories reveal acts of evil in different ways; Green Gulch portrays evil as brutal, immoral and violent, while in the Genesis evil is described as manipulative, attractive, easy to commit, and pleasing to the eye. Both stories are similar in a way that the immediate consequence of evil is the instant loss of innocence.
The little boy in Green Gulch is completed devastated when he experiences the brutal murder of the turtle. He uses a lot of metaphors to describe what he thought of the murderers and evil overall, “I think looking back that it must have been a little, like a child following goblins home to their hill at night fall.” And, “a grimy, splattered gnome who had been stooping over the turtle.” The child’s knowledge of evil mainly comes from fairytales and stories for he uses goblins and gnomes to represent what he thinks evil is but his genuine discovery and thoughts about evil are revealed when he states, “ I had discovered evil. It was monstrous and corroding knowledge.” His understandings toward evil changes after he experiences and digests the brutal and savage incident. He overcomes a stage of maturity and comes to know what evil truly is and how it spreads, “some curious evil impulse passed like a wave.” The boy feels the
Ms. Aquilina
ENG 3U1-05
12 February 2014
One Act, Grave Repercussions:
Characteristics of the Nature of Evil and its Consequences in Genesis and Green Gulch.
Evil in its most general context is anything that is profoundly immoral and malevolent. In Green Gulch by Loren Eisley and The First Sin and Its Punishment; Genesis 3 the nature of evil has many characteristics and is shown to have a lot of consequences. Green Gulch is a short story about an isolated and solitary little boy who suffers from many severe repercussions due to his exposure to an evil and an immoral act. The First Sin and Its Punishment is a biblical reading about Adam and Eve and how they get tempted by the serpent into eating the fruit. Both stories reveal acts of evil in different ways; Green Gulch portrays evil as brutal, immoral and violent, while in the Genesis evil is described as manipulative, attractive, easy to commit, and pleasing to the eye. Both stories are similar in a way that the immediate consequence of evil is the instant loss of innocence.
The little boy in Green Gulch is completed devastated when he experiences the brutal murder of the turtle. He uses a lot of metaphors to describe what he thought of the murderers and evil overall, “I think looking back that it must have been a little, like a child following goblins home to their hill at night fall.” And, “a grimy, splattered gnome who had been stooping over the turtle.” The child’s knowledge of evil mainly comes from fairytales and stories for he uses goblins and gnomes to represent what he thinks evil is but his genuine discovery and thoughts about evil are revealed when he states, “ I had discovered evil. It was monstrous and corroding knowledge.” His understandings toward evil changes after he experiences and digests the brutal and savage incident. He overcomes a stage of maturity and comes to know what evil truly is and how it spreads, “some curious evil impulse passed like a wave.” The boy feels the