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Title: East of Eden grabs your attention
Review: East of Eden provides a interesting reading experience and never fails to suprise. The characters are all very complex and change throughout the story. It is about two families, the Trask's and the Hamilton's whose path meet in the Salinas Valley of California. East of Eden also parallels the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The rivalry between Adam and Charles and Aron and Caleb directly parallels this story, the only difference being that Aron and Caleb (Adam's children) manage to resolve thier rivalry with each other. Cathy represents the evil character while Adam is the Ultimate good. Adam starts off very naive and gets taken advantage of by Cathy; and not until later does he finally become more aware and sees what Cathy really is. A theme in this novel is the need to be loved. Charles and Caleb, both feel that thier father's do not love them and this creates an extreme jealousy of Adam and Aron respectively.
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