Isaac's Storm Chapter Summary

john banks
US History 1302
Mr. Owens 1. A. The title of the book I chose is Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
B. The author of this novel is Erik Larson
C. This book was first published in 1945 by The Pelican Publishing Company
D. This book is about the horrible hurricane of September 8, 1900 on Galveston Texas that destroyed the entire city. The story is written through the eyes of a local meteorologist named Isaac Cline who studies everything about weather and knows just about everything. The storm wipes out the entire city of Galveston Texas, but Isaac would save thousands of people in his actions before the storm. He is faced with multiple challenges throughout the story and many mysteries
This chapter is right at the beginning of the storm when the wings are starting to pick up and huge waves are beginning to crash down on the city. Waves are begin to flood the city and Isaac is stuck in shock. His brother joseph knows it’s going to get worse and wants to leave there house as soon as they can, but Isaac refuses to do so.
C. In this chapter I believe the author is trying to show the reader that it was too late for Isaac to do anything and I think Isaac was in shock at the end of the chapter because he truly believed that nothing of that magnitude was going to happen. He believed that he knew everything was going to be fine and that it would all turn out okay. All this makes be believe that if you are too arrogant and you never change your ways of not being so arrogant then you could be lead into some very bad things.
D. In this chapter the author writes about how shocked Isaac is and how he can’t believe what is happening. His main idea is to prove to you that if people continue to be arrogant and no one ever stops and really tells them there opinion then it’s not going to be pretty. At the end of the chapter when Isaac doesn’t want to leave you realize how positive he really thought he was and he never took any advice or ideas from anyone else to make him think
Hughes, Patrick. American Weather Stories. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1976
A. Part 5: Strange News: A Letter from Moore
B. This chapter is after the storm when Isaac notices an angry letter written in the Houston Post newspaper by Willis Moore, the head of the Weather Bureau, defending the Weather Bureau of actually sending out a weather warning for the city of Galveston. Isaac knows this is not true, that the bureau never actually sent out warnings for the disaster that was to come. Isaac is very distraught and wanders why Moore has changed his output of this and is saying all these things that are lies.
C. The Main Idea of this chapter that the author is trying to get across is that when people change because of big disasters like this they no longer want to be how they once were. Isaac realizes after the storm that he had been very arrogant and should have listened to the people he had around him. He had lost his wife in the storm and I think that really made him realize what could have happened if he had known about this great storm. If Isaac would have more respect for Natural disasters and what they could do he could have saved not only his wife, but all the other people who died