The Puritans would oppose the book breath because of the element of witchcraft in the book from their point of view. They’d see the four horsemen from the bible Famine, War, Pestilence and their leader Death. They’d see everything being part of death as a sign of the devil. They’d also think that Death’s horse was a witch’s familiar because it could talk like …show more content…
Suicide is a sin in the bible and in Breath Xander is in a coma. After a party where his best friend makes out with the girl he’s fallen hard for he runs out drunk. He ran outside and got in his car in a fit of depression at seeing the betrayal he decides it's not worth living anymore and goes to drive into a tree but at the last minute something in him changes and he slams on the brakes crashing into the tree still. Death is an immortal being and after years of searching he loses all hope to find his soulmate. In his lowest he decided to fight his life cycle and he goes to do one last job before ending it all. Xander wanting to live and to keep the world he knows safe tries to convince the suicidal death not to jump from his balcony.
Finally the Puritans would protest the novel Breath because women held high positions and back then that wasn’t really common. In Breath Xander's mom is well respected but after getting drunk he decides that it's not worth listening to and yells back at her, his father then yells at him for talking that way about his mother and she sends him to his room. War or Missy is a very violent and strong women who is also Death’s woman and lover. She’d act passionately and would put all she had into her work.
Sinners, authoritative woman and witchcraft are all reasons the book Breath would be protested by the Puritan people. The puritans would destroy the book breath because it goes against everything they believed in back then at the