How to Read Literature Like a Professor

What Biblical event does Foster equate “the loss of innocence” and “the fall” to?

In chapter 7 " or the bible " of How to Read literature Like a Professor

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Another way of saying “loss of innocence,” of course, is “the Fall.” Adam and Eve, the garden, the serpent, the forbidden fruit. Every story about the loss of innocence is really about someone’s private reenactment of the fall from grace, since we experience it not collectively but individually and subjectively.

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