What Are The Similarities Between Genesis And The Monkey Garden

In the vignette, “The Monkey Garden,” Cisneros uses similes, personification, and juxtaposition to show how the garden quickly changes from a child’s playground to a place of haunting grownup memories. In the beginning, Cisneros uses similes to describe the carefree nature of the garden: “There were big green apples hard as knees. And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth, and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumey like the blue-blonde hair of the dead" (Cisneros 95). Initially, Esperanza and the other children are young and naive and play in the garden without any worries. The garden is a place of childhood innocence and shows that although Esperanza wants desperately to grow up, she is still a child.

The woman will go through pains and sorrow but despite that, her loyalty will be fixed on her husband. All her life, she would learn to be bound to her husband. How does this connect to eating the fruit? It goes beyond eating the fruit but shifting her belief from her husband, who is supposed to be her Lord, to believing the serpent. You remember the order of leadership described by Paul to the Corinthians?

Yes, absolutely. Also, I think adults are the general guidance for a child’s moral development. In “to kill a mockingbird”, Miss Maudie and Atticus are great role models for the children. For example, when Jem and Scout are discussing about Boo Radley, Miss Maudie tells them to never base someone on outside rumors and states that Boo always treated her nicely. Also, Atticus decides to defend a Negro which taught them about the division in their community and to follow what they believe is right.

Not once, or twice, or ever again.” (Cisneros 105). One of the reasons for this is her meeting the three old ladies who came for Rachel’s sister’s funeral. There prophesy that Esperanza will leave Mango Street boosts her self-confidence. The narrator also says, “Before Keeler it was Paulina, but what I remember most is Mango Street, sad red house, the house I belong but do not belong to.”

As a child, Esperanza wants only escape from mango Street. Her dream of independents and "self-definition" also means leaving her family behind without any responsibilities to her family. Throughout the book, her has also faced some situation where is feels ashamed to be part of the Mango Street community and in some instances refuses to admit she has anything to do with mango street. At the beginning of the book near the earlier chapters, Esperanza feels very insecure about herself in general along with the house that she lives in. As mentioned before, she doesn’t want to discuss her name nor where she lives.

Esperanza is often humiliated not only by where she lives, but also by her physical appearance, hence causing a restriction in her climb to a higher social class. Esperanza is frequently ashamed of her family’s broken-down house in an urban, poor

Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden which was a place of youth and innocence, much like nature and the flower in the poem. Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge. Eve ate the fruit from the tree, committing the first sin. Then Eve tempted Adam into eating the fruit also. In the poem, the Garden of Eden “sank to grief”.

(Genesis 3:5-6). Eve’s interest in the fruit was piqued by Satan the serpent, and she gave the fruit to Adam, who also consumed the forbidden fruit. Comparably in Anthem, Equality 7-2521’s catalyst for his actions is his own curiosity. “We [Equality 7-2521] wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk’s and clearer than rock crystal” (Rand 36).

In the book, The House On Mango Street, symbolism is evident by the way the author writes. The symbols are used to express the way a character feels or to connect one thing to another. One of these major symbols are trees. Esperanza looks at different trees throughout the book in chapters “Four Skinny Trees” and “Meme Ortiz”, and claims them being a reflection of her. Trees symbolize a feeling of not belonging, finding strength, persevering, and doing something for the foundation of the future.

Discipline is the practice of training children to obey rules, using punishment to correct disobedience; discipline is enforced by most parents. However in “The Veldt”, instead of George and Lydia disciplining their children Peter and Wendy, they pamper Peter and Wendy, which Bradbury suggests is a direct reason why Peter and Wendy become unruly and aggressive. Through characterization, foreshadowing, and symbolism, Bradbury displays that there can be grave consequences to not disciplining your child. Bradbury uses characterization to display that the kids become dependent on the nursery, they start seeing it as an actual person. When George is about to close the doors to the nursery, Peter freaks out and says with anger to the ceiling, “Don’t

Cisneros’s language in “The Monkey Garden” is similar to the language used in Genesis as they both include tempted characters and banishment. When reading these similar lines, Cisneros’s message in “The Monkey Garden” suggests that significant turning points in life are inevitable. “The Monkey Garden” and Genesis contain tempted characters who make the improper decisions: Sally and Eve want to commit actions that identify as irresponsible and unavoidable. In “The Monkey Garden” Tito and his friends persuade Sally when they tell her, “ you can’t get the keys back unless you kiss us and Sally pretend[s]to be mad at first but she [says] yes.

In the book, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza is portrayed as a young innocent girl that drastically changes over the course of the book. Esperanza is new to mango street and encounters many challenges but also positive experiences that she is able to take away from mango street. In order for Esperanza to transform as a human it was inevitable for her to face the struggles on mango street. As Esperanza matures throughout the novel she experiences three major developments that shape her future through the awakening of maturity, responsibility and her awakening of her interest in poetry.

In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior.     At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.

The story goes that God warns the people of the garden that they must not eat fruit from the tree of knowledge. Eve later persuaded by a serpent decides to take a bite out of the knowledgeable fruit. Later she shares the fruit with Adam filling both Adam and Eve with remorse and shame. God hears of their disobedience and curses both Adam and Eve since the fruit had made both of them impure. In

(18) ‘senses his life has run to seed’(5 ).He feels an urgent riptide drawing him far out, where caught in the hell of loneliness, he cries for help (4). And he confesses to his friend Janet: I’m young, employed, healthy, ambitious Sound solvent, self-made, self possessed. But all my symptoms are perinicious.