The Devil Tree Short Story

treeted like a child, to be seen but not to be heerd. This was the aditude in

When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.”

Since the beginning of Paradise Lost, a reader can witness the dramatizing power possessed by Satan, and how he takes advantage of this very power in order to satisfy his own causes. One such property of Satan's fantastic powers is his ability to manipulate any individual into a false belief of who he really is, and therefore prevent a habitant of paradise from discovering his true purpose that is hidden behind his actions. One such example of this, and one of the most major in the epic, are the events that occur in Book IX involving Satan and Eve around the forbidden tree. Here, Satan uses, what is to Eve, excellent reasoning to convince her to eat the forbidden fruit, thereby exploiting

Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put in into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back to his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for 10 years, should Jack die before then, he would not claim his soul. Ten years pass, Jack again tricked the Devil into a tree to pick him an apple before he took his soul. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until he promised Jack not to bother him and to never take his soul. Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack out into the night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth ever since.

“... You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” (Genesis 2:17). Holcomb was subjected to a version of this when the learn of the horrors within the murderers that plagued the town, and their friendly spirit died, like God had said in the verse. Dick and Perry play into this as the archetypal Serpent from the Garden that forces this travesty onto them. This perspective of the murders makes them truly criminals in the eyes of everyone, which cannot be said for every perspective people view them from. This archetypes them as the devil in disguise and holds no remorse for them, making them out to be undeniably guilty. This plays into the motif of human nature and evil as this consideration of the Dick and Perry does not delve into their backstories at all, dehumanizing them and taking the perspective of the murderers being born evil and not learning this behavior through their treatment in society as

When the devil shows Tom a tree for a greedy townsperson, he fails to see that he is very much like that tree when he "looked in the direction that the stranger pointed and beheld one of the great trees, fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core" (130).

He was confused to why he heard knocking if no one was there, and he began

After 9-11 there was a tree that was knocked down. But 9 years later another tree grows in the tree’s place. It is now known as “The Survivor tree”. The tree represents the people who survived and how they grow stronger, and for the people who died they will be remembered. The survivor tree is a Callery pear tree. “The Survivor Tree has become a symbol of the nation’s spirit of hope and healing

One day while working in his garden, the farmer saw a squirrel run up his majestic tree that stood over his home. The farmer thought the tree was perfect in every way. When the squirrel got to the top of the tree it ran into what he thought was a hole. The farmer climbed the tree to examine where the squirrel went, only to find that his beloved tree was only a shell of a tree and had rotted from the inside. The farmer was faced with the choice of cutting down the tree, which would cause a great deal of damage because of its enormous size. However, if the farmer left the tree standing it would be a constant danger to his family and home and could potentially fall if there was a storm or wind. The farmer regretted seeing the squirrel because he now knew the

"The Devil!" screamed the pious old lady." (Hawthorne 3) The old Puritan woman is walking through the heathen forest in prayer, and clearly acknowledges the snake staff to be that of the devil. Not only could the serpent-like staff represent the devil itself, which is also conveyed as a serpent in the Bible, but it can also convey the sly, snake-like personality of the elderly traveler, who knows just what giving the staff to Brown would do to him. In Bible, the serpent in the Garden of Eden encourages Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil". (Genesis 3:4-5) The sly character of Brown's companion resembles the sly character of the devil in the story of Adam and Eve in relation to the fall of Man. Once Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge, sin and transgression of the law came unto Man. Likewise, the traveler knew that if Brown walked with his staff, he would no longer be blind to see the sin among his ‘Puritan' family and

Look at all those tree stumps; it’s as if a giant cut down the trees. Wandering the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, I noticed the fallen trees were devoid of bark and branches and some appeared cut, with a chainsaw.

The look of the tree is compared to the old man by the use of personification. Although the man knew that the tree had to be much stronger because if the man took the trees place he wouldnít be able to stand alone.

Satan, still within the body of the serpent, offers Eve a multitude of reasons why she should eat from the Tree of Knowledge, despite God’s warnings. He tells her the fruit will not kill her as God says, for he ate of the fruit and is not only alive, but made even more powerful. In his most prevalent argument, Satan attempts to demonstrate to Eve that the act of eating has the ability to become a transformative experience. Though ultimately true, the transformation that Satan describes occurs far differently than the one she and Adam actually receive. In Christianity, food acts as such a significant force that Satan can almost seamlessly trick Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. Food and eating is so powerful throughout theology, that Eve can effortlessly envision its potential as a vehicle to transform her from an earthly human to a god-like being. Upon Eve’s initial consumption of the illicit fruit, one of her leading thoughts becomes that the fruit "may render me

Working with wood is a skill that has been around since man created his first tool. From carpentry’s beginnings, it has developed enormously, but in its essence, the tools and techniques our modern carpenters use today are the same as those used in the Stone Age. The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines carpenters as “people who construct, erect, install and repair structures and fixtures made from wood and other materials.” This trade has an extensive history, an expansive modern field, and with it, I plan to build a tree house, thus making a difference in a kid’s life. The term “carpentry” comes from

The wild west wind came down through the fields, rousing the deer from their reverie, and swaying the bee-studded flowers. From its highest bough to the loose sand on its mighty roots, the ancient tree quivered lightly, yet was untroubled by the breeze. Many a storm had passed over the tree, yet no rain had managed to drown those fathomless roots, no hail had managed to bite the iron bark.