Outside Readings- East of Eden, Rawley

I am reading the book East of Eden by John Steinbeck. This book is so intense. I haave only read the first fourth of it, but I know so far that is it about the battle between good and evil. One of the first characters I met was Samuel Hamiliton. He is an Irish man who owns a farm in California, he is a really good man. He raised a really great family and has a really genuine heart. Everyone respects Samuel Hamilton and even though he is not a very good business man, he loves to help people. The next character is Adam Trask. He is a good man as well. He was absued by his younger half brother growning up and he did not really love his father, but his father adored him. He enlisted in the military when he was 18 and after he got out, he traveled around the country until he went home. Once he gets home he sees his brother, Charles, again- who looks up to Adam- and finds out the their father died and left them with a ton of money. One night they are talking and a girl shows up at their door step, one breath away from death because she was attacked. Her name is Cathy, she is pure evil. She killed her parents when she was younger and made a whoremaster fall in love with her so she would get what she wanted and when she did not love her back, he attacked her so severly that she should have died. Adam takes Cathy in and brings her back to life then falls in love with her. They get married and they move to California together. Adam buys the biggest farm in Salinas and asks Samuel to help him dig wells to find water. Samuel, who is a really good, pure man meets Cathy for the first time and his intuition tells him that she is a bad woman. He gets chills when he is around her because he can feel how evil she is. Adam cannot feel how evil Cathy is because he is mesmorized by her. There are so many parallels so far in this book. Cathy is just like the devil. She is sneaky and manipulative. Weak people fall into her trap and she takes over. Samuel has not fallen into her trap because he is strong. I am so excited to finish this book.