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In Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larson analyzes the Galveston Storm of 1900 through the perspective of the town’s meteorologist Isaac Cline.  Using a unique perspective to evaluate the devastating effects of the storm,  Larson uses his beginning chapter to create the circumstances that gave rise to the storm and the subsequent mismanagement of the entire affair.  Unlike a historical writing, Larson depicts the events leading to the storm in a literary narrative of the events and portrays the storm as the antagonist seeking  to destroy the island city of Galveston and push Isaac to the limits of heroics.  However, this approach removes the severity of the storm and lends itself more to literary imagination than a disaster that took the lives of thousands of people.  Rebekah Benninger says that the devastation of Galveston is found in the poor communicative efforts and over reliance on a single individual to dictate the necessary actions to notify of the impending storm.  Though the poor communication and reliance on Isaac directly impacted the fate of Galveston, the fault is better placed in the Weather Bureau for the lack of confidence it instilled in the American people prior to the storm.  Perceived as a lecherous and incompetent division, the maintenance and repair of a public image concerned the upper echelons of the  bureau more so than advancing the science behind meteorology.  The fault can’t be placed on Isaac solely, due to the history of hurricanes in the area.  Using the data available to him and the visible trends of the ocean, Isaac assessed the dangers accordingly and was unaware of the growing dangers of the building storm.  The severity of the storm can best be described by Larson’s butterfly opening its wings, a natural occurrence.