The relationships between connected literary units can work in different ways (e.g., contrast, create a sequence), but at the core is an analogy. The reader is being asked to read a particular literary unit on analogy with another literary unit in order to discover a deeper meaning. Sometimes entire stories or scenes are designed to repeat elements of other stories. This involves not only repeated words but parallel narrative patterns, themes, and sequences. Sometimes the narratives to be compared are next to each other, like in Genesis 2-3 and Genesis 4. In these narratives, we watch Human and Life set a template for redefining “good” and “bad” on their own terms, which is replayed by the next generation.