![]() ![]() In Twain’s rewrite of Book of Genesis, Eve is finally exonerated-completely-of the charge of being responsible for Fall of mankind. The full breadth and depth of the irony of this bit of self-reflection-and it is very wide and twice as deep-cannot be fully appreciated without reading Adam’s diary entries. ![]() “When I found it could talk I felt a new interest in it, for I love to talk I talk, all day, and in my sleep, too, and I am very interesting, but if I had another to talk to I could be twice as interesting, and would never stop, if desired.” “It was because I am left-handed and cannot throw good.” Eve and Adam The reasoning behind her failure is perhaps the most delightfully weird and unexpected irony in the text: Even though she knows stars are farther away than they appear, one night she decides to try to knock one down to keep for herself by throwing dirt clods into the sky. It tires me just to sit around and watch the tree.” Eve was a Southpaw?Įve is far more adventurous than Adam. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įve’s adventurousness is juxtaposed most starkly to Adam whom she describes as a creature “more interested in resting than anything else.” And then she immediately unleashes some more great ironic self-reflection and then a helping of ironic foreshadowing to boot: These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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