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In chapters four through six I found Larson’s style of writing to be very descriptive and vivid. Larson’s style of writing provides the readers with real accounts about people in the this devastating natural disaster. His writing conveys sorrow and sadness because it is very unimaginable to even think about what these people actually went through. As @armando35 said, “Larson focused more on the people of Galveston and the way they were dealing with the aftermath.”. These chapters are mostly about the men, women, and children and the ways in which they tried to survive the horrific winds and the floods. The destruction of property was not even close to being equivalent to the amount of people that died. I found it quite gruesome how many people who were trying to avoid debris would also see the abundant amount of corpses pass by through the waters.
I think that what was gained from Larson’s style of writing was how a man versus nature is a battle in which inevitably nature will always win. His writing shows how a natural disaster could rapidly and efficiently destroy a society within minutes. His writing conveys evidence of primary sources from people who were in this disaster. His writing also shows how natural disasters occur at any given rate and even if people have created safe shelters they could still be unprepared. In one personal account, from the orphanage, it states that, “Sister Camillus had hoped the clothesline would save the children, but it was the clothesline, rescuers saw, that caused so many to die, tangling them in submerged wreckage.”(Larson, 213).
I think that what is lost from Larson’s style of writing is how there wasn’t details on how other people from different communities found out about this disaster. I think that not having information on how the rescuers came to Galveston leaves readers, like myself, left to think about how no one from the other stations of the weather bureau came to find out why no one was responding to them.