Ames, the principal of Steepleton High School, confronts Mrs. Creed about her son, she refuses to accept that she had some part in Chris’ disappearance, and instead says that it wasn’t her fault “that other children saw [her] son as an easy target"(Plum-Ucci, 175). Denial is one common response to a tragedy, and it's also one that both Adam and Eve use in Genesis. God approaches them in the garden, after they eat the forbidden fruit, and Adam immediately says "[Eve] gave me some fruit from the tree,