Well, today we talked a lot about the last sentence of the book: "...but we must cultivate our garden." I was thinking about its connection with the Garden of Eden and how that ties into responsibility. I realize my last post discussed the repercussions of The Fall, but I need to bring some points up again. Isn't true that Adam and Eve were both punished with labor, and responsibility? And isn't Candide's realization of labor and responsibility the point of his last statement? For me, it was a direct correlation. Candide is in the real world now, not living naively in paradise. The book ends with Candide growing up and confronting this idea. Just like a garden, he seems to have grown!!
above are pictures of robbie and me in the gardens this summer- you can kind of see the patterns of how everything is organized the way we talked about in class
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