Colter's Hell

The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah Stern, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. She is sent back in time to experience the Holocaust. During a Passover Seder, at her grandpa Dan’s house, Hannah was transported back to 1942 Poland, during world war two. As she opens the door during Passover Seber to let prophet Elijah in, she finds herself in the unfamiliar Polish village with people she don’t recognize or know. Hannah stills remembers all her family so she thinks…

There are nine circles of hell in total, all in which Dante sees the lurid truth of the consequences of sins. The punishments for dishonesty, lust, greed, and heresy are harsh in high expense. Although corruption is intrinsic to the multitude, sinning shouldn’t be contemplated as a prescriptive normality; therefore, if humankind continues subsisting with this idea, afflicting each other will fruit another normality. The intensity of each circle holds a motive. The motive is for Dante to see with…

The story titled "The Devil and Tom Walker" contains numerous themes. This story focuses predominantly on the theme of greed and it's negative outcome. The protagonist, Tom Walker, is a man known for his greedy tendencies, living a sorrowful life with his wife, who is just as unpleasant and greedy as him. Where in the text is Tom Walker greedy? "Tom might have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil". Tom is vigorously tempted by the devil's alluring deal. This greed leads him to sell his…

Hell is an evil place recognized largely as the worst place a person can go for the worst of sinners. In the comedy, The Divine Comedy, by Dante there are nine circles of Hell. The depiction Dante gives to Hell is a colder place. This differs a lot from John Milton’s book, Paradise Lost, where Hell is depicted as a fiery inferno with darkness on all edges. Hell is a place of fiery death much like Milton’s depiction. This is because burning is more painful that freezing and the Bible depicts that…

a tour through hell, in which the main character has to face his sins and overcome them. Dante’s Inferno by Dante is widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, detailing Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell. Each circle in this depiction of hell acts as an inescapable prison (in most cases) where sinners are judged and placed into, having to be punished for their specific sin for all of eternity. Dante travels progressively into the depths of hell as Dante the…

My experience in hell felt ridiculously timeless, therefore, I knew this couldn’t have been a schizophrenic episode. I often wondered if perhaps I hadn’t passed through time for that long at all and if time remained nothing but a vague feeling. If that was so, that was the worst episode ever. Nevertheless, I’m doubtful. The burns, the slashes, the bites are hardly memorable, but I've always remembered the words. Various victims of hell existed other than myself, but everybody was engulfed with…

themselves being a satanist without even practicing the faith or educating themselves on what it actually means. People have portrayed satan in many different ways; immolating in hell,a half goat figure, and even as a human. In the faith of satanism they do not believe any of these accusations, they don't believe in hell nor that Satan is an Anthropomorphic…

Faustian tales normally include the main character, who sells his soul for some temporary pleasure, and the devil-like character. Authors do not always have to be blunt when referring to the Devil, but the reader will always can infer to identify the Devil in the story. The author in this story never bluntly states the figure is the devil. Instead, he uses supernatural behaviors, adjectives, and symbols to infer this character is this story’s Devil. In the short story Young Goodman Brown,…

Virgil guides Dante through the circles of hell so that he could reach heaven where Dante’s wife Beatrice awaits. Dante created this story in order to give the world an image of afterlife and to explain the Christian belief of sin and punishment. He takes us through each circle of hell describing what it looks like, who gets sent there, and what punishment they receive. Through the story Dante is preaching the perfection of God’s justice. He shows that Hell exists to punish sin and the sinners…

Back in the days of old, when the air was clear and the grass was green lay a boy, brought by the heavens on a roll of silk. His name was Orpheus. Like other boys and girls, he grew up, always the smartest in the class and best at every activity. He was loved by everyone, and he loved to help out around the village. He would fix broken toys, cook at the village church, and cared for the elderly. He had lots of friends, most of which were from his orphanage. But he bore a secret gift, and each…