“They’re like two sides of a medal. Cal is sharp and dark and watchful, and his brother - well, he’s a boy you like before he speaks and like more afterwards” (Steinbeck 386). This two sided coin is in part what causes the cycle of rejection within Cal. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck would explain that the relationship between good and evil lies with Timshel, one’s choice to do right or wrong. This quasi-fictional novel set in the Salinas Valley at the turn of the twentieth century, is the story of the Trasks and the Hamiltons, two families drawn by the current that brought settlers to the rich farmlands of California. As he traces the families through three generations, Steinbeck retells the Biblical story of Adam and of Cain and Abel, a
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