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An author’s intent changes depending on the type of person an author is and also what type of book is being written. According to Professor Shrout, Erik Larson’s intent is to argue that the Weather Bureau and Isaac Cline had barely any clue what as to what was approaching the city of Galveston. Craig Offman’s article ‘A tempest around “Isaac’s Storm”’, seems to take the approach that Erik Larson’s intent is that he finds Isaac Cline to be fairly useless up to and during the Hurricane, and that Isaac and his brother Joseph had a fairly antagonistic rivalry with one another.
Offman’s article is about how Larson explains Isaac was the false “Galveston-area…Paul Revere”, the relationship between the meteorologist brothers after the hurricane, and how Larson might have over exaggerated the classification of the hurricane that devastated Galveston. Offman explains that initially Isaac was reported to have gone around warning people to leave before the hurricane could hit Galveston, but that with Larson’s Isaac’s Storm the person who was the one warning people to get out was Isaac’s brother Joseph. The article explains that according to Larson the two brother’s had bad relationship after the hurricane, but that according to the meteorologist Lew Fincher, Larson was exaggerating the brother’s relationship and that Fincher had quoted in his book that the brothers still spoke warmly to one another after Galveston. The classification of the Galveston hurricane seems to be up in the air. According to Offman, Larson used category 5 in Isaac’s Storm but that Larson conceded it was officially declared a category 4, while Fincher stated it was a category 3 or 4. Based off of this evidence Craig Offman’s intent seems to be to report that Larson gives a new viewpoint to the Galveston hurricane but that not everything with the book is factual. The only problem that comes from Offman’s article is that it is “his personal view on the review he is giving for the book” to quote chriscobar.