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 East of Eden
Salinas Valley. John Steinbeck's home
The Hamiltons. John Steinbeck was writing about his maternal family
Bit his hand. She nearly poisoned him by it
Shipping frozen lettuce. It failed but he didn't really care
Cain and Abel. Adam and Charles, Aaron and Cal, the Mark of Cain on Cathy etc. etc.
Northern California. Excerpt from the book: "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains and the Salinas Valley winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into the Monterey Bay."
Adam and Charles. Adam is from Cyrus Trask's first marriage to a woman only known as Mrs. Trask. Charles was born nine months after Cyrus and his second wife, Alice, married.
f. Adam was Cyrus' favorite son and Charles constantly beat Adam because of that fact.
Army. Adam becaue a private in the Calvary.
Cathy. After Cathy killed her parents, she worked in a whorehouse where she was almost beaten to death in a jealous rage. Badly beaten, Cathy found her way to the farm house of Adam and Charles Trask.
nine . Excerpt from the book: "Over the years, nine children were born, four boys and five girls. With each birth another quarter section was added to the ranch and that makes eleven quarter sections or seventeen hundred sixty acres."
No. Adam married Cathy after she healed from the beating. On their wedding night, Cathy slept with Charles while Adam slept.
Olive. Olive became a teacher before marrying and had three daughters and a son.
Caleb and Aron. Excerpt from book: "Cal is sharp and dark and watchful and his brother---well he's a boy you like before he speaks and like more afterward."
Yes. Samuel died on March fifteenth.
Cathy. By now, Cathy had taken on the alias of Kate. Adam talked to her for a while and then left feeling better than he had since she shot him and left.
| At the post office, Adam got a letter stating that which member of his family had passed away? | Go Walk "East Of Eden"
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Charles. When Adam took the boys to the post office, he got the letter from a lawyer saying that his brother Charles had died and left money to both him and Cathy.
Gambling. Caleb was arrested for gambling, but it was proven that he was just there and not doing any gambling. Adam came to get him from jail and take him home.
Yes. He went to see her after hearing that she was a prostitute in King City. He ran out after Cathy told him that he was the most like her.
World War I. To get away from his family and his recently discovered mother, Aron lied about his age and joined the Army. He died in the war.
She took pills. Excerpt from the book: "And her heart beat solemnly and her breathing slowed as she grew smaller and smaller and then disappeared--and she had never been."
Timshel. Timshel is the belief that every person has the right to choose his own path.
Abra. Abra and Caleb end up together.
Will. "As a growing boy, Will was lucky. Just as his father could not make money, Will could not help making it."
Will has always felt, in his secret heart, inferior because of this gift: "He thought the Hamiltons despised him for his one ability. He had loved them doggedly, had always been at hand with his money to pull them out of their errors. He thought they were ashamed of him, and he fought bitterly for their recognition."
Tom. Tom, as always, had taken "more on his plate than he can eat." He had asked two girls to the dance, but when he was ready to go, "shy and shining as a Roman emperor", his brothers had already taken the rig, the buggy and the cart. There was nothing left but the hayrake, "and you can't take even one Williams sister on that". Tom has always been inventive though: "...last I saw, Tom went dragging up the hill, reclining at his ease on the sofa to get the Williams girls, and, oh, Lord, it'll be worn thin as a wafer from scraping by the time he gets it back."
She won it as a prize for selling Liberty bonds. "If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. But they didn't know or they were stupid. When they killed Martin Hopps they lost the war because that made my mother mad and she took out after them. She had liked Martin Hopps. He had never hurt anyone. When they killed him Olive declared war on the German empire."
She sold Liberty bonds with such fervour that she won the "fairest prize of all", an airplane ride. The only problem was, Olive did not really believe in airplanes. She was convinced that she was going to her death. When the pilot jokingly asked her "Stunt?" she thought he said "stuck". Determined not to panic, and trying to keep the pilot in good heart, she nodded and smiled. The pilot performed loops and barrel rolls, and every time he looked back and asked "More?" she nodded and smiled again, paralyzed with fear and beyond hearing anything. "Afterward he said over and over, 'She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more...what a pilot she would have made!'"
| When Lee offers Sam Hamilton a drink of Chinese brandy, ng-ka-py, Sam says it tastes like rotten apples. What is Lee's reply? | "East of Eden" - The Hamiltons
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"Yes, but nice rotten apples.". The conversation between Lee and Samuel, as Lee drives Sam to the Trask place to discuss digging wells, is the first indication we have in the novel that there is more to Lee than meets the eye.
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