Thomas Heywood's The Hierarchy Of The Blessed Angels

The novel that I chose to read was The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. The Killer Angels is a historical fiction novel based on the Civil War. The setting of the book starts in June in 1863 on the 29th and goes through July 3rd. The story starts in Pennsylvania with the Confederate army moving towards Gettysburg in the span of the first few days. The main characters are General Robert E. Lee who was the commander of the Confederate army, Lee’s number two, General James Longstreet and Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain from the Union side.

The writing in the chapters is very detail oriented and it makes it very easy to imagine what is going on. A lot of times throughout the book it seemed like I was right there, or it seemed like I was watching a scene from a movie.

Once he approached the gloomy monument and he noticed that what Chillingworth left was not of his, but it was Dimmesdale’s bible. The ill pastor examined the holy scripture and one the cover he noticed the A on “Catholic Bible” was circled with a bloody red marker. The pastor glanced around and

The book that I am reading for my summer reading is Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. This book is about soldiers who are fighting in the Vietnam War. The book focuses around the main protagonist Richard Perry and is in first person through Perry’s perspective of the war. Perry’s life is different compared to mine for instance Perry is the age 17, he has a single mother and younger brother he is having to support by joining the army while just finishing high school. While I have both my parents and a sister, and I do not have to support my family., and just starting high school.

I think this book was well organized in its chapter and sub chapters. For a guy who despises reading, this book was not that tough as read as I expected especially for it being about history and non-fiction. There was nothing for me to be excited about going in, but I got through it without much struggle. The book had some weird names, some Latin words, and some unusual vocabulary. Other than a couple of words, this book was an easy to understand, thus making it an easy read.

During the actual war, the soldiers of the Confederacy and of the Union often tended to demonize one another. In order to be able to kill someone, the soldiers had to think of that person as less than human, or else the guilt of killing another man could become unbearably difficult to live with. Both the North and the South are often presented as noble men fighting for their way of life against slavery, or for federal control of states. Some of those examples of hatred and demonization were presented to readers during the course of the book. However, there was not enough for the reader to get a sense of how brutal and vicious the Civil War was outside of the battlefield because The Killer Angels is a war between gentlemen.

The haunting cover image of a dark night and the absence of hope in humanity sets the tone for what readers can expect within its

Among those highlighted in the book, an entire chapter is dedicated to

She was quite extraordinarily pretty, pink and white, with large pale-blue eyes, and sparse little golden curls all over her head and neck, through which her pink skin could be seen.” (354). After knowing what the characters look like, this leads to the theme and symbols in the

This man that is directed by rod is seen to be a sinner and the other two figures are the just Christ is protecting. The stanzas in which the psalm should be sung are marked by capital letters illuminated in different colors ranging from red, purple, blue, and green. Following these letters, the text of each stanza is hand written in ink in Latin. This psalm contains large vertical and a large rightward margin drawing the readers eye to the center of the work. The word ECLINA is displayed next to Christ’s image illuminated in purple in all capital letters.

I thought that these were good reasons why the book is so different from the

The questions about angels that Billy Collins uses in his writing, is a reflection of uncertainty that he himself has on religion. This can be seen in several instances, however two that a reader often might glance over is when Billy Collins writes, “ Do they sit alone in little gardens changing colors”, and “ Do they swing like children from hinges” (3). Starting off with the first question he poses a reader might think the Billy Collins is referring to the flowers changing color in heaven. However if one takes a deeper look into the poem, we can see that he 's actually referring to the skin tone of the angels themselves. Posing numerous other questions, such as “what race are angels?”, and “what does this mean about our current representation of heaven”.

The books are only used for their appearance, obscuring their content in uncut pages perfectly mirroring the

On the inside of the back binding, the name Phillip C. Duschnes can be found on a sticker. Phillip C. Duschnes was a widely known book collector in New York City during the 19th Century who bought many rare books. It is not certain when Mr. Duschnes would have bought the book, but it is very likely he would have gone to a book auction to buy it and many others. There are not enough records to show what happened directly after he owned it, but eventually George F. Pinne, a doctor from the Omaha area, was the owner of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. According to Special Collections staff member Allison, Mr. Pinne met a Grinnell College official during the Cold War.

On page 3, the author includes a splash. The author includes a caption in the middle, saying, “In The Beginning Darkness Upon The Face Of The Deep.” The author includes a flashback so people understand that peace is close. Specifically, this is an allusion to the denouement of World War l. On page 4, the author used a speech balloon on the last panel of the bottom tier when the girl says, “In the beginning god created the dark, then the light, then mother and me and then the others and it was good.”