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What is interesting about this reading is that it does not follow the same style of readings we have been done previously. Before we were given either primary or secondary sources that give out facts and analyze them. This reading is a nonfiction novel by Erik Larson, Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. The Novel started off with a prologue giving a description of the protagonist to say, a meteorologist Isaac Monroe Cline, along with a little background information of what was occurring at the time with Galveston the day before the hurricane that would eventually take the lives of 4000 people. Shortly after that, Larson goes into the back into the past of Isaac Monroe and how it led to his decision to become a meteorologist. There are a few interesting points that is made in the first part of the novel. In the chapter, “What Isaac Knew” Larson talks about how men are stepping away from the realm of God and more into science to which some of the people find questionable. It relates back to what ZHEDRICK about “city searched for answers to the inferno, religion acted as a reinforcement of Chicago’s divine nature among the urban centers of the world.” The people sought towards the act of God as a way to punish those sinners. However thanks to the journals that have been passed down, the meteorologists have been able to conclude that the disasters are not from God’s will. I found this to be interesting because we can start to see some sort of shift from God’s Realm to more of the secular side in this reading. Besides this little portion of the reading, what I did enjoy about the novel was how it broke the parts into chapters, some of which dealt with Isaac’s training in the field. However it was the other part where it describes briefly how far the storm is from reaching Galveston. This fascinated me because Isaac was sure that a hurricane would not hit Galveston and even made the claim that even if did hit them, the damage will be minimal.