Reading Notes: Adam and Eve Part B
I have enjoyed reading stories from The Forgotten Book of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr (1926). The story, The Beasts of the Creation, was my favorite one to read.
The story starts with Adam and Eve weeping to God and forming a parental type bond with Him. God has pity on them and reminds them that He has not forsaken them. Adam pleads with God and tells Him that he is terrified of leaving the garden, for surely the beasts of the world would devour him. God reassures Adam that He is in control, and commanded all the beasts to be familiar with Adam and Eve. All the beasts, except the serpent came to Adam and Eve. After leaving the garden Adam and Eve noticed a river that came from beneath the tree of life. Adam and Eve were at an all time low and considered falling in that river to remove themselves from creation and end their lives.
The chapter ends here. If you did not read the end of the chapter, you would think that this was a morbid end to a story and wonder who would write such a spin off of the biblical story. I think that there are hundreds of stories out there that are based on another story, but end it in a completely different, and sometimes tragic way. This could be a tactic I choose to keep in mind when writing my own stories.
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