Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
This short story is told by the first woman created by God according to the Bible, Eve. She has her own point of view and perspective about everything. However, this story does not mention her name until the very end, in the section that says ''At Eve's Grave''. Actually this makes a lot of sense because, after all, it is her own personal diary and she does not have the necessity of mentioning her own name.
Mark Twain uses her name in the title to tell us more about the main character.
This story is about Eve's whole life, from her creation up to her burial by Adam. In the beggining, she and Adam were in the Garden of Eden. After her peculiar ''birth'' she says, ''I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday''.
Eve is amazed by everything she sees, the animals, the moon disappearing during the the and returning at night. she learns about everything that lives and grows in the garden.
Now, she wants to learn more and explore.
In the very first moment Eve and Adam see each other, they are scared mutually, but she quickly feels quiet and recovers to start following him around. She realizes that he is a man and they spend their time together to know each other and talking.
Eve is a master naming things, animals, plants and all the things she sees feeling confident saying ''I seem to know just by the shape of the creature and the way it acts what animal it is'', contrary to Adam who seems to be bad at that. We also see how Eve creates fire accidentally and names it.
Adam feels a little stressed and overwhelmed by her and decides to avoid her for a few days untill feeling better, which distresses her greatly. In the story we found an excerpt from Adam in which says how much animals and Eve love each other.
It is really funny when Eve tries to adopt a Brontosaurus as a pet and tries to tame it.
Relying on the reader's knowledge of the Bible story which tells when she picks the forbidden fruit, Mark Twain avoided everything concerned to the first original sin, then he jumps to the times Adam and Eve are out of the Garden of Eden. Eve says how much she misses the garden and all the things that were there, but she is content because she still has Adam and she loves him with all her strenght of her passionate nature, no matter what. She says all the things she loves from Adam and how masculine he is. Her prayer is that they may pass from this life together, but if one of them goes first, it is her prayer that it shall be her.
''I am the first wife; and in the last wife I shall be repeated''
At Eve's Grave
''Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden''-Adam
Mark Twain
Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote
under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to author several novels,
including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and
inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
Writing grand tales about Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and the mighty
Mississippi River, Mark Twain explored the American soul with wit,
buoyancy, and a sharp eye for truth. He became nothing less than a
national treasure.
