1. …Or The Bible
By, AJ Doering

2. Bible Connections
Gardens
Serpents
Plagues
Forty Days, etc.

3. Bible Connections Everyone can make connections
Scriptures = Devil known
Serpents, flames, and voices
Beloved by Tomi Morrison
Judgement Day  Killing instead of capturing

4. Loss of Innocence Involves a fall of a character
Referenced in many books
Adam and Eve

5. Loss of Innocence “Araby” by James Joyce
Uses innocence loss
Based on life in Dublin
“loss of innocence” = “The Fall”

6. Title options East of Eden Tongues of Flame Go Down, Moses!
All have some sort of biblical reference

7. Scriptures Obvious Scriptures: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Informed by religious meanings
Quotations and Situations
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Takes blows and rises from them
Christ when crucified

8. Scriptures Non-Obvious Scriptures: “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Ironically placed in stories
Used as disruptions instead of continuities
“Why I Live at the P.O.”
Two fowl = fatted calf (final supper)

9. Religion Depth Ways to tell References to Bible: Its deeper
Out of the ordinary
Abstract

10. The End