Mark Twain
Eve's Diary
eBook
( Oct. 29, 2019)
The story goes through Eve's entire life, but the main focus is on the beginning when she and Adam are in the Garden of Eden. It begins with her 'birth,' saying, ''I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday.'' Eve chronicles her life in the garden, telling us what she thinks as she discovers new things.
She watches as the garden is perfected, and she learns. She sees that the moon disappears during the day but returns again at night. She tells us, ''The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell...it breaks my heart to think of it.''
Later, she notices, ''They returned the moon last night, and I was SO happy...It slid down and fell off again, but I was not distressed…'' As she watches and learns things, she comes to the conclusion that her purpose is to learn and explore, and she is content with this.