Quickwrite:
Imagine the first man (Adam) encountering the first woman (Eve). Using "time-honored" STEREOTYPES of men and women, what might they think about each other when they first meet?
In Class Reading: Extracts from ADAM's diary Finish for homework
TMRW: Enter EVE
HMWK: Write a 40 minute essay for "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
handwritten for AP practice
Adam: what is this beautiful creature, and where did she come from. im attracted to her
ReplyDeleteEve: what is this creature. Why does he look different from me. he is catching my interest
(Thoughts)
ReplyDeleteAdam: Whoa what is this beautiful creature?
Eve: What is that thing hanging from him?
Adam: What are those lumps on her chest?
Eve: He is magnificent...
Adam and Eve: .... Who are you?
when adam first saw eve he looked straight at her butt. then his eyes slowly moved up at her body. scared to say anything he closed his eyes hoping she would say something first. after a few minutes he opened his eyes and she was gone. he circled himself looking for her, but he couldn't find her. when eve first saw adam she was confused. she was wondering what this new facial expression was, the look on his face was so new to her. his jaw never closed even after he closed his eyes. scared of the man she saw in front of her she ran away.
ReplyDeleteWhen man would first see a woman, he would believe it to be the most beautiful creature he’s every witnessed. He would contemplate the attraction he has for the woman, and the woman would see the man in the same way. The woman would see someone that she wants to become attached to, as if he is there for her protection. Man would then be attracted to the woman and feel as if he wants to become the man that must be with her and provide her with safety and love. They would both attract each other equally and then live their lives together.
ReplyDeleteAdam observing Eve: Admiring her figure, checking her out, thinking she's weird, that she's strange looking, that her hair is too long, he's getting nervous and cant make words but still thinks he the best thing on the planet, thinks she's clingy and has a strange urge to run away.
ReplyDeleteEve observing Adam:Admiring his body, thinking he's strange, she immediately wants to love him forever and ever and never let him go, she has a strange urge to pour out her feelings, feels that if any other creature was to talk to him that she would have to kill them, "wow, he's really full of himself.."
Adam: "How did my rib turn into this?"
ReplyDeleteEve: "That apple looks pretty good..."
the woman would have a burning desire to explore and know more about what was in front of her. the man however, who is completely powered by is sexual feelings, would immediately feel a sexual attraction to the woman and desire to sleep with her.
ReplyDeleteThe woman will naturally want to explore the man and his qualities before any type of intimate communication. The man on the other hand will almost instantly feel sexual attraction.
ReplyDeleteI crouched behind a palm tree, clutching my aching side as I squatted. I choked off a painful groan to hide my presence, below the breast my wound had miraculously clotted but was still raw and the skin and muscle hadn’t yet regenerated. I gripped the bark as hard as I could to prevent myself from screaming. God, why? I had nearly reached my limit when I spotted the creature picking some berries and my curiosity took reign over my nerves.
ReplyDeleteHow odd of a specimen it was. Scalp hair ran long, down to the thighs. No visible muscle or body hair. The chest was…large, at first I thought of strong pectorals but further observation, how they jiggled and swayed as it turned around to put the berries in her leaf pouch. I would have to get closer for further observation.
Adam:
ReplyDeleteSo this Eve chick’s pretty hot. She’s kind of annoying though. She just talks so much about stupid things like her different crotch-leaves she wears, and how much she loves the apple trees but hates the berry bushes. I wish she would just be quiet for a while, so I can get a break from pretending to listen to her. And then I start thinking this while I’m talking to her, and I hear the pitch of her voice go up, and I’m like “shit, that was a question!” So I have to give a really neutral answer, something like “you know, what are you gonna do—put one foot in front of the other—one day at a time.” And then she falls for it, but she gets mad because I didn’t take her side in whatever stupid conflict she was complaining about.
Eve:
Adam is a terrible listener. I really wish he would stop asking me to sprint up hills and fight animals with him. I just like to relax, and pick berries, and he wants to do all this intense stuff to prove how manly he is. Maybe I would at least compromise if he would listen to me. I just want to tell him about my day, and how I feel, and then I ask him if he agrees with me that the apple trees are so much nicer than the berry bushes, and he tells me to put one foot in front of the other. It makes me think he doesn’t even care about me.
ADAM: Wow that thing is very unusual and frightening but I'm attracted to it at the same time. I Want to make love to it.
ReplyDeleteEVE: This thing I'm seeing is confusing, I would like to get to know it better and its strange ways
ADAM: Why does it talk so much? All i care about is making love.
EVE: I dont want to make love to this strange thing, all it does is eat too much and break things
There are no languages, no forms of communication. Without any words they are able to form an emotional bond. Adam has been looking for companionship for his entire existence and finally has someone to chill out with. The original sin was greed, not lust. Purely emotional, the basic human need for companionship. Without any self-consciousness and embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteWhen Adam first saw Eve, he could not stop staring at her up and down and he wished to see what she felt like, to poke her soft figure. Eve felt uncomfortable under his strange gaze, she wanted to speak, to explore his mind and soul. She opened her mouth to say hello, or to introduce herself, but he put his finger to her lips and made a hushing noise. Confused, yet angry at the same time, she turned and went to sit under the apple tree's shade, alone. As she walked away, Adam watched her butt. He felt like he should follow her, but she seemed emotional, he didn't know how this new person would act.
ReplyDeleteSince Adam and Eve would have first met before the creation of sin, there wouldn't have been the sexual elements that we think of when we think of the first naked man and the first naked woman hanging out for the first time. Christianity qualifies sexuality, "lust", as a sin-- a negative thing. Therefore, sexuality would have been absent from the Garden of Eden where sin had not yet been created. Human airs of superiority makes us assume that Adam and Eve would have recognized themselves as members of the same, superior species. I think it is more realistic to think that Adam and Eve would have seen each other in the same way that they saw all of the other animals that had materialized in Eden. Animals are herd animals by nature, so I think it is safe to say that they would have spent time together. But the Bible eliminated instinctual human elements like the desire to reproduce, so maybe Adam and Eve wouldn't have needed to be social either. There is no way of knowing what Adam and Eve would have thought about each other because we are unable to consider humans without the knowledge of humanity that we have gathered by living in the human world.
ReplyDeleteI imagine the interaction between the two would involve both seeing each other for the first time, and staring in confusion for a very long time... I can't even begin to imagine or put into words what could possibly be going through either of their minds.
ReplyDeleteDear Diary, I’ve never seen anything like it , I was just walking down the path and then all of a sudden, there it was, lying there in the grass at the foot of a tree, as if it was waiting for me. It was so…round and curvy and soft and perfect. I tell you diary, it was the most….voluptuous, beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. And oh, diary, the way it tasted, it’s red flesh in my mouth, so….wonderful. I have decided that, since I have been given this garden and everything in it to rule over as I see fit, I shall name this perfection. I have decided that it should be called….apple! Yes, apple. After discovering this most wonderful of…discoveries, I filled my arms with their deliciousness, and headed back to camp. Tonight I had the best meal of ALL TIME! Well, it’s been a very exciting day, so I guess I should rest. Goodnight Diary.
ReplyDelete-Adam
Oh, yeah, there was another thing. I discovered this new…creature. Not sure exactly what to call it, it looks sort of like me but has these…things that I don’t… also doesn’t have some things I do. I offered it one of my new discoveries and tried to explain all the merits of the apple, but it seemed bored by my lengthy explanation of how you can throw it through a tree’s branches to score points in my own personal game. It’s only response to this was to question my naming decisions, asking why I would call a game you play with your hands ‘Football’ and what was a ‘ball’ anyway. It may have had a point, but really, isn’t it rude to point out something like that when you first meet someone new? Anyway, after all of that it still refused my apple, talking about something I’ve never heard of, ‘calories’. Apparently they’re bad for you’re ‘figure.’ Anyway, I left it there, jabbering away about carbs and transfats. I hope I don’t run into it again, it’s thinness scares me. SIDE NOTE: I have this strange pain in my side that I can’t figure out the source of.
-Amelia