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Cain and Abel

May 31, 2011
By Julia Navarro BRONZE, Park Ridge, Illinois
Julia Navarro BRONZE, Park Ridge, Illinois
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Here in this car load
I am Eve
With Abel my son
wf you see my older boy
Cain son of Adam,
tell him
his is forgiven
for doing wrong by his brother,
for which the penalty is death
that I am waiting,
for his sinds against his fellows
to be forgiven,
for the savior to come
to save his soul and mine,
so that he may join me
and his brother Abel
as we enter the gates of paradise
here in this car load
I have forgiven,
but shall never forget

The author's comments:
I did this piece as a log entry for my accelerated english class. We were given the beginging of a writing that was found during the persecution of the Jews in europe.And were told to complete the poem as we saw fit. It started: Here in this car load
I am Eve,
With Abel my son
If you see my older boy
Cain son of Adamn...
This is my interpretation of how the poem may have been finsihed. thought it sounds mainly religious keep in mind it is still representative of the jews and germans during the Holocaust.

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