The entirety of Larson’s Isaac’s Storm<\/em> is centralized on an idea that this storm belonged to Isaac Cline and no other individual in the devastated town of Galveston, leaving the reader to question how this storm belonged to a single individual and not the town as a whole.\u00a0 Throughout the book Larson not only gives the perspective of Cline, but that of other individuals within the town and their own experiences with the tragic event that took the lives of their neighbors and loved ones.\u00a0 To make this event accountable to a single individual comes across as artistic leeway to retell the event from the perspective of a single individual.\u00a0 However, to make this claim Larson gives an analysis to the character of Cline during the course of his work to show that Cline in fact takes the storm as his own.\u00a0 Cline’s own recounting of events during the storm are at constant odds with those of his own brother Joseph, a contradictory force that undermines the “well meaning” elder brother.\u00a0 Isaac’s own inflated hubris allows him to make large claims of his heroic actions prior to the storm hitting land and the 6,000 lives he saved, a number that later grew to number 12,000.\u00a0 Later telegrams to the Weather Bureau sent by Isaac say that the warnings of the storm were widespread and sent to areas beyond Galveston as well.\u00a0 Contradicting the telegrams sent by Joseph that tell of death and devastation, Isaac continually downplayed the destructiveness of the storm and allowed it to take a personal tone within him.\u00a0 Mckenzie Jackson<\/a> states that many of the town’s inhabitants were given warning signs to evacuate given the weather conditions.\u00a0 Though it is possible to foresee the coming dangers from a modern lens, the people of Galveston witnessed storms yearly and were accustomed to them.\u00a0 The only individual who could have given credence to the dangers of the coming storm was Isaac Cline and because of his inaction and competition with his brother he failed to adequately warn the town.\u00a0 This storm is Isaac’s and it is through his inherent in his own abilities that allowed for the devastation of Galveston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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