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“One of the prominent features in East of Eden is Steinbeck’s insistence that all men have the power to choose between good and evil” (Lisca, 266). There is an ongoing debate over rather people are born good or evil or if they choose between good and evil. Steinbeck believes that while persons are inherently good or evil, he/she still has the choice to live a good or evil life. This choice is what sets the human race above the animals. Humans are the only beings that can choose to act for good or evil. In fact, they are the only beings with the ability to struggle over the issue in the first place. Steinbeck sees this ability as the greatest thing that there is. He drives his point home through his novel East of Eden. In East of Eden, Adam and Cal reveal that the worth of a man or woman comes from his/her ability to make the choice to rise above his/her circumstances and choose good over evil. Steinbeck uses Adam to show that a man is useless as part of a group and has no value until he begins to make decisions for himself. “The Army is depicted as a group that tolerates no individual differences in its members, absorbing them completely into itself” (Gunton, 374). When Adam joins the army,
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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