Broken Hearts- Cade Wood

        First of all, I'd like to say, like a few of the other blog posts I read, some of the things described in this book kind of freaked me out. It was creepy to read but definitely got my mind wondering if this is what Hell might actually be like. 

        Now that that's out of the way, what really caught my attention in this, besides all the creepy descriptions, was when he first entered Hell. In Canto Three he writes, "There sighs and moans and utter wailing swept resounding through the dark and starless air. I heard them for the first time, and I wept." (lines 22-24). At the beginning of the book, he gave what I thought was a visual description of his Christian walk. I could have completely misinterpreted what it was meaning, but that's what I understood it as. During this visual, he talks about how he had wandered so far off the "straight and true" (line 3). What I thought was most interesting throughout this whole sequence of events was that he wept for those souls wailing and screaming. Now, for some reason, Dante doesn't strike me as the type that would cry over everything. but even then, he was weeping. If he had wandered so far off the path, then why did he weep for the lost souls? Maybe because they were tormented and he thought he might end up there as well? Or maybe it broke his heart that people chose to be a part of something like that.

         I think everyone has a choice, to follow Christ or to not follow Christ, and those who choose the latter go to Hell. I also believe it is appropriate for believers to weep over those who do go to Hell. It should break our hearts to the point that we should have a desire to do something about it. Anyhoo, sorry for ranting, but that's just what popped into my head as I read. 

I commented on Zane's and Spencer's posts.