Charles gets furious with Adam when he senses that his father, Cyrus, loves his brother more. One evening after Adam comes out from one of his daily chats with his dad, the two brothers go out for a walk. Charles asks Adam what the two of them were doing. Adam replies that they were just talking. Charles doesn't believe him. "Didn't look like that to me," Charles said suspiciously. "I saw him leaning close, talking the way he talk to me-not telling, talking...Charles cried, "you're trying to take him away! I don't know how you're going about it. What do you think your doing?" (Chapter 3 section 4 Pp. 37-38). Charles get as mad as a bull and beats up Ada

Charles came close to killing his brother, but now his jealousy leads him to breaking another of the Ten Commandments. The Trask brothers didn't show too much interest to settle down and have a family until Cathy shows up at their doorstep all beat up. Adam takes care of her and falls in love with her. He wants to marry her. One night Cathy tricks Adam into taking her medicine and Adam sleeps like a baby. She sneaks into Charles bed. He breathed harshly. " I already been with a whore." "You're a pretty strong boy, Move over little." " How about your broken am?" "I'll take care of that. Its not your worry." Suddenly Charles laughed, "The poor bastard," he said, and he threw back the blanket to receive her." (Chapter 11 section 5 P.163) Charles sleeps with Cathy and had no objection when Cathy came over and hopped into his bed. He knows that Adam likes her. Charles is jealous that he can't get a women. He get jealous and sleeps with his brother's soon to be wife. One of the commandments is the prohibition of adultery and the prohibition of coveting your neighbor's wife. He has committed 2 sins. So it is clear that jealousy leads to sin.

Whereas Charles' jealousy "almost" kills his brother and cheats on him, Cal does kill his brother in an indirect way. Cal wants to surprise his father, Adam, by giving him a present of $15,000 that he invested. He is very excited about this. He waits patiently for Thanksgiving. Finally Thank

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