In the book by Steven Biel,\u00a0American Disasters,\u00a0<\/em>There was a chapter that Carl Smith wrote on called Faith and Doubt. This touches base on the fire that broke out in Chicago, but with a story about faith. Some people see that the fire that broke out in Chicago was God punishing the people for living in a very sinful city. With the fire burning Chicago, some of the people saw this as a blessing as stated on page 136. Smith also writes about how some people remained calm and quite as they retreated from their homes being burnt. He goes on to write that the fire did not exclude any class and went after the rich and poor. From reading this I can see this relating back to the earlier pages about God smiting the city and of course he would not exclude anyone from his wrath on the city. But going back to the fire, Smith explains something that caught my eye on page 151. He writes about how the fire brought out the worst in the supposedly good people. So now people are showing their true nature and people are realizing that not even the high-class people are so high and mighty but they too might have a drinking problem or have problems at home. And with what\u00a0jessicabode<\/a>\u00a0wrote on the fire that “Peg Leg” \u00a0Sullivan started, you can probably assume many people were going out to drink their sorrows and asking why God must have done this and why was their house affected by this fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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