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East Of Eden
1. “Charles had one great quality. He was never sorry - ever. He never mentioned the beating, apparently never thought of it again. But Adam made very sure that he didn’t win again – at anything. He had always felt the danger in his brother, but now he understood that he must never win unless he was prepared to kill Charles. Charles was not sorry. He had very simply fulfilled himself. (30)” After Adam beats Charles in a game of peewee, the only thing Adam ever won; Charles beat Adam with a bat until Adam lay unconscious. Showing no remorse for beating his brother, Charles simply walked away. Such an action shows the malice that Charles had, as well as his underdeveloped conscious. Charles probably saw his brother’s winning as Adam trying to destroy the only way Charles had of gaining his father’s affection, and thus attacked him for it. Unlike most people, who would be sorry for their actions, Charles felt completely justified in his deeds. As a result of the beating, Adam made sure to never win anything against his brother, which probably gave Adam a low self-esteem. Just as well, the ill-feelings the children had probably only pushed Adam to moving California even more, wanting to get away from the house of his awful childhood. 2. “Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms he could never miss them. Sometimes when we are little we imagine how it would be like to have wings, but there is no reason to suppose it is the same feeling birds have. No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visib... Please login to view comments from other users.
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