in the opportunity to admit the truth. Never being able to admit his sin and receive God's blessing, he receives a curse. His farming shall not flourish as it once did, and he must wander and be a fugitive. God puts a mark on Cain as one of deserving of death yet one chosen by God to live. One interpretation of the mark is that God believes death is too good for Cain and punishes him by making him live with what he has to do. It can also be looked at as allowing Cain an open door through which he can return whenever he is ready to face things more honestly.Cain is very much like each and every one of us and it seems that we are fascinated with him. This could be because there is good and evil in every one of us. Of Abel, we basically just hear that he was born and murdered by his brother. Without a lot of explanation we are left with the nagging mystery of the death of an innocent man. We deal with that continuing mystery each day as innocent people are killed. In some ways you find out that murderers are more like you than different from you. Most of them have snapped during a horrible time in their life and taken the life of a loved one. For them it was not a logical move because none of them really were thinking logically at the time. Typically it was an action coming out of being totally absorbed in the other person. In a way it is not that they have total disregard for the other person, it is more that they have way too much regard and their attention has to be eliminated in order for their lives to go on. This is exactly what happens between Cain and Abel.Envy is also brought into the book through the story of Cain and Abel. It is introduced as something we are born with and tempted with all our lives. Finding we can't get what we think we want, we act to take something away from the other person. Everyone has been envious at least one time in his or her life. Sometimes a person can be so envious of another that...
