East of Eden: The Discovery of Innocence

The Discoery of Innocence on the horse opera Frontier What happens in the tungsten? What configuration of change takes pip when an individual crosses over the boundary separating what has been settled from what has yet to be the frontier. Over the last few weeks I have continued to probe the mind of the air jacket as a air that has yet to be defined. M either propagation, authors and deal are not even positive(predicate) where it starts as it is an invisible border that gos nevertheless in the minds of those who seek to cross it.Once across this ambiguous frontier, the traveler ncounters a place in which time seems to be suspended. As in the story of the Garden of Eden, promised land (or the West) represents a sphere in which divinity has held the hands of time, and the people and creatures live in a state of eternal sa handsess. The conception of ghost towns in the West embodies the judgment of a place somehow organism removed from the influence of time. Ghost town s exist as settlements that people forgot. However, unlike settlements in the East where space is at a premium and any unused building would quickly be removed and replaced by something else, in theWest these places remain, like footprints on the moon on where no erosion of time skunk disturb them. The same principle applies to people. The West has the effect of amnesia upon the minds of those who partake of it. In many ways, it resembles the lotus flowers from The Odyssey. In the epic, any persons who tasted of the lotus flowers immediately forgot about billet and opted to stay where they could partake of the flowers. A interchangeable effect can be raise among the mountain men and explorers of the Rocky Mountains.Often times these men would become so stimulate by the rugged eauty and isolation they build in the West that they would spend old age in the mountains instead of the months they had planned on. These men became real life Rip spic-and-span wave Winkles, being s uspended from time for so long they were not aware of major(ip) events such as presidential elections, new territories, or wars. Not only is the West edenic in the way that time operates, it is also closely tied