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Garden Of Eden In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies
No parents or adults in sight and you’re deep down in the hot jungle with a couple of friends but you look around and you see a beautiful, peaceful place full of opportunity that reminds you of something that would have came straight from the bible. The book Lord of The Flies are similar in many ways and one of those similarities is how the Garden of Eden in the Bible is like the Scar in The Lord of the Flies. The Garden of Eden was described in Genesis Chapters 2-3 and God created the Garden of Eden was made Specifically for the first man, Adam. This garden was presented to us as this perfect place with no sin at all and just full of opportunity whether it was food or water just an abundance of things that are needed to survive and full of no worries. This was the most beautiful place that ever was made on earth just full of peace. God placed Adam in the Garden and told him not to eat from the tree of …show more content…
This jungle was described as this nice, beautiful place, I would say, that had lots of fruits(William Golding 9), and animals and available drinking water to the point where if the boys needed any of these things all they had to do was look around and search they could find it with little to no work at all. This was a perfect sinless place where little to no man has been before loaded with opportunity. These places were both peaceful and sinless at the beginning and untouched by mankind, then when man was put onto these places man was missing something and by the end ultimately caused chaos and reasons to sin. In the Garden of Eden Adam was missing something and that something was another person, so God took a rib from Adam and made woman and called her Eve. As for the boys in Lord of the Flies they were missing structure and order in their new society.
There was a beast in both stories that caused the characters and people to sin

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