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From the article I have learned that the book written by Larson is a very good book that provides a lot of facts and evidence about the Galveston natural disaster. His book provides readers with a lot of narratives from people who were in this horrible event. I think the way in which Larson wrote about the brothers, Isaac and Joseph, provides vivid imagery on how there may have been a lot of rivalry between them since they both were meteorologists. The book shows specific details about the occurrences during the floods and the aftermath of the disaster. As my peer @jessicak wrote, “The Galveston hurricane shows that humans and technology has its limitations”. The book describes how nature is clearly much more powerful than society in strength to destroy anything and anyone that gets in its path.
The argument in this article comes from Lew Fincher because he argues that Larson is in a way exaggerating that Isaac was the hero and how it is only because of him that people were saved. Fincher argues that Larson sites more about Larson in ways that make it seem like he was the one who did it all. Fincher argument also centers around how he thinks that Isaac had full responsibility to alert the people of the town because he knew about the weather conditions of that day. Fincher argues that Larson wrote the book by making Isaac seen as the only hero. Yet it is ironic Fincher says that it is a good book when he seems to not like it at all.