The main themes in “Eve’s Diary” are misogyny, the importance of beauty, and the human need for companionship. Misogyny: By giving Eve a voice, Twain, who was a supporter of women’s suffrage, satirizes sexist ideas and draws attention to women’s struggles to have their contributions recognized.

Which of the following best describes how the narrator, Adam, views Eve throughout most of the story? The narrator is annoyed by Eve’s seemingly random names, indicating that he prefers logical purpose but lacks her intuition and spontaneity.

The narrator believes that names should just come to a person (inspired by what a thing looks like), revealing that he is whimsical and creative. The narrator likes simple names for things, like the “estate” for the Garden of Eden (named by Eve), suggesting his lack of creativity.

According to Adam, the creature was always talking and it gets to name all the things. “Cain” was being referred to as an “it” by Adam in the story because he never knew it was a human like him until later. However, Eve was so attached to it. Adam thought of it as a fish, then insect and so on.

Conflict. The conflict in Eve’s diary is the fact Eve had been trying to get Adam to talk to her and she is not having success and even becoming friends with him he gets upset at times and he does not tell her what she did wrong.

Hover for more information. While “Eve’s Diary” is an indirect, gentle satire of religion or of the human urge towards faith in a benevolent larger force (which in his day was called Providence), Twain was generally caustic about the retrograde, reactionary aspects of belief.

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It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, and is claimed to be “translated from the original MS.” The “plot” of this story is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by her mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know him, and …

The book may have been written as a posthumous love-letter to Mark Twain’s wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, just before the story was written. Zoeth Freeman was a banker and would become one of the trustees of Clemens’s estate.

A. Adam does not have the same appreciation of beauty in nature as Eve does, because to him it doesn’t serve a purpose.

A Eve views the world like a scientist, mainly. through passive observation. B Eve views the world in a very childlike, or. simplistic way.

The main characters in “Eve’s Diary” are Eve and Adam. Eve is the first woman and the narrator of most of the story. She is intelligent, curious, and brave, and a devoted caretaker and investigator of the natural world.

She concludes it is just her nature. The story skips ahead again to forty years later, and Eve is still in love with Adam. She hopes they can spend the rest of their lives together, and that she will die first. She does, and it is at her graveside that we learn how Adam felt all along. The final line is from Adam.

But when night came I could not bear the lonesomeness, and went to the new shelter which he has built, to ask him what I had done that was wrong and how I could mend it and get back his kindness again; but he put me out in the rain, and it was my first sorrow.

C Eve’s primary concern is exploration while Adam. stays in his shelter, revealing Eve’s greater. curiosity and thirst for knowledge, as opposed to. Adam’s complacency.

At the beginning of the diary, Eve wrote about how she first felt arriving on Earth and what she observed around her. Since the majority of the story revolved around Eve, the main meaning centered around the “child’s” point of view. In contrast, Adam, the first man on Earth, thinks very differently than Eve.

Mark Twain

Twain is quoted as saying, “’Eve’s Diary’ is finished — I’ve been waiting for her to speak, but she doesn’t say anything more.” The story ends with Adam’s speaking at Eve’s grave, “Wherever she was, there was Eden.”

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While “Eve’s Diary” is an indirect, gentle satire of religion or of the human urge towards faith in a benevolent larger force (which in his day was called Providence), Twain was generally caustic about the retrograde, reactionary aspects of belief.

Twain’s skepticism about religion lasted all of his life. He had a personal faith — he said he believed in God, attended church and donated money for the construction of a church. But he skewered religious hypocrisy wherever he found it.

At the beginning of this novel, Huck has internalized the white values of his southern, slave-owning society. Therefore, he believes it is immoral to help a slave run away to freedom.