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In Craig Offman’s article, “A tempest around “Isaac’s Storm”” Offman argues against Erik Larson’s book “Isaac’s Storm and how he portrays Isaac Cline in it. Offman claims that Larson makes Isaac seem like “an incompetent rather than a soothsayer,” making it seem like it was because of Isaac millions of people had died as paraphrased by, . Offman uses evidence such as, the New York Evening Sun, meteorologist Lew Fincher, and the book “The Story of the Galveston Flood” to prove that Isaac should be deemed a hero for his efforts during a time when meteorology was just becoming a practice and there was very technology available for him to successfully predict the magnitude of the storm. Offman also points out how Larson portrays Isaac and his brother Joseph’s relationship with one another. Larson makes a point to say that the brothers did not speak much to each other, but Offman counters this by using the brothers’ journals and “The Story of the Galveston Flood” to discover that the boys wrote many warm letters to one another after the storm. Offman’s conclusion from all of this evidence is that Larson over dramatised the brother’s realtionship, so it could be relatable to his readers. In all fairness, we see that in many movies made about real life stories today, so why should anyone be shocked that it was happening in writings back then? Readers and movie goers want to be entertained, if they wanted just plain facts they would have read through scholarly articles instead.