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East Of Eden

Submitted by jaymeloff on May 30, 2008

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Every person on this planet past and present is entirely unique in their own way, but every person on this planet is the same in one way. All people, whether they choose to admit or not, want to be loved and have a need to be loved. In the novel East of Eden
Steinbeck utilizes the characters to show the reader how love affects even the coldest most sadistic person. The theme of mankind’s inborn desire to be loved is represented in the novel through Aron’s yearning for a mother’s love, Charles competition with Adam to gain their father’s love, and Cal’s desire to feel love and affection from his father.

Aron feels a strong yearning for a mother’s love throughout his lifetime in the novel. When Aron and his brother Cal were newborns their sadist mother left her sons and father and went away after shooting the boy’s father, Adam, in the shoulder, because of this the boy’s grew up not knowing what a mother’s love feels like. Aron is the more passionate and emotional of the two brothers and it is through his thoughts and actions that the reader sees his constant yearning for a mothers love. Aron longs for a mother more than his brother because of how emotional he is, Aron feels a great deal of emotion and sometimes gets confused when his emotions run amok. Unlike Cal who has the ability to bottle up his emotion and not let them cloud his though, Aron feels emotions a great deal stronger so he cannot contain them and because he has no mother to comfort him. Despite being very emotional and expressive he limits his expressiveness so he does not become vulnerable to his brother, but when Aron first meets Abra he immediately falls in love with her and begins to spend more and more time with her because he has finally found someone he can confide in without having fear of being vulnerable. One of the times when they are together, Aron asks Abra if she could pretend to be his mother and she agrees. Abra begins to speak to Aron as...

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