He and Liza live in San Jose for 20 years. The Hamiltons moved to the Salinas Valley in , and settle in the harsh and dry foothills east of King City in about At first regarded with wariness by his neighbors as a foreigner, he earns their trust and becomes a beloved and respected figure of his community. Samuel is a handsome, robust, outgoing man, a master storyteller "a comical genius" and lover of poetry and philosophy. An educated and wise blacksmith, carpenter and woodcarver, he is renowned for his honesty, diligence and inventiveness.
But in his business dealings, he has no talent for making money. Steinbeck was two when his grandfather died, so he creates Samuel out of family stories. Samuel's wife, she is small, slender and self-contained, mother to nine children, four boys and five girls. She "had a finely developed sense of sin. She was suspicious of fun.
She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. She had no spark of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit.
She suffered bravely and uncomplainingly through life, convinced that that was the way her God wanted everyone to live. She felt that rewards came later. The first-born son of Samuel and Liza, he does not figure prominently in the novel.
Even as a little boy he was polite and what they used to call 'no trouble. George was a sinless boy who grew up to be a sinless man. From childhood on he was a hard worker, if anyone would tell him what to work at, and once told he was indefatigable.
Certain individuals, not by any means always deserving, are truly beloved of the gods, things come to them without their effort or planning. Will was one of these. His prosperity puts him at some remove from his family. He died while on vacation abroad. Sensitive and impulsive and a compulsive reader, Tom, third-born son, is most like his father.
He would try things his father would not dare. Also, he had a large concupiscence to put the spur in his flanks, and this Samuel did not have. Perhaps it was his driving sexual need that made him remain a bachelor. It was a very moral family he was born into. It might be that his dreams and his longing, and his outlets for that matter, made him feel unworthy, drove him sometimes to whining in the hills. He was "a kind of mooning boy, greatly beloved and protected by the family.
His brothers were tough hard workers, all of them. It was easier to do Joe's work than to make him do it. His mother and father thought him a poet because he wasn't good at anything else. Discovery Services. Online User and Order Help.
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Open Access. Open Access for Authors. Open Access and Research Funding. Open Access for Librarians. Open Access for Academic Societies. About us. Summary Part Two, Chapters 12— Page 1 Page 2 Page 3. Popular pages: East of Eden. Take a Study Break. Sam asks Lee why is he content to be a servant. Lee says a man not Sam and Adam wander around the property looking for water. Sam carries a stick with him Adam invites Sam to dinner.
Sam agrees, but finds dinner to be excruciatingly awkward. He sees something terrifying As Sam rides back from the Trask property he tries to understand why he is feeling so The next day at breakfast Sam tells Liza about Adam Trask hiring him to dig three wells, as well as build She sits quietly watching the flurry of activity around her.
One day while Sam is drilling, Lee comes running outside and insists that Sam come inside to help—Cathy has Sam goes into the bedroom and Cathy looks furious. He manages to get her to tell When she returns, Sam asks her how it went.
Liza remarks that, though she can find no fault with Sam comes to visit Adam, who sits alone on his porch with his arm and shoulder For a while Lee and Sam did their best to help him, but eventually gave up, for Adam could not be Sam has to first convince Liza to let him visit Adam—she believes Adam is a bad Sam begins to shout Sam and Adam go to look at the boys—Adam has never really looked into their faces Adam, Lee and Sam sit down with dinner and begin to consult the Bible for names.
Sam suggests that Eventually, though, Sam and Adam agree that the names Cain and Abel carry too much darkness in them, He succeeds, but along The difference between Sam and Tom is that Sam is able to find his way out of complex trains They can hardly stand to think of a world without Sam in it, and Tom is the most upset of all.
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