If one were to choose the best and most important genre, it would be History. It’s the most important genre because many can learn from others in the past, and apply it to life. Learn from past mistakes, and their victories. There’s a pattern to this, the pride cycle. Also noticing the same problems, fixed and ruined, happen over, over. Learning from History is very important, repeating itself, like it does, would be a disaster. There are many books in the history genre, but the one that portrays history best, is the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is a record from about 600 B.C. to 420 A.D., written by the Native Americans, The righteous people are mostly called Nephites, and the wicked are called Lamanites. Throughout the book there are …show more content…
A great example is in The Book of Mormon, of Alma’s son, Alma the younger: He and his friends, the sons of Mosiah, were very wicked Nephites, seeking to destroy the church of God, by leading the righteous away from the church. But one day, “...as they were going about rebelling against God, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto them; and he descended as it were in a cloud; and he spake as it were with a voice of thunder...” (Mos. 27.11) The ground also shook, and they were astonished, that they didn’t hear what he said, but the second time the angel directly talked to Alma the younger and asked him why he was trying to persecute the church of God. It then says, “And again, the angel said: Behold, the Lord hath heard the prayers of his people, and also the prayers of his servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has prayed with much faith…thou mightest be brought to the knowledge of the truth…” (Mos. 27.14) That day changed Alma the younger’s life. He went on throughout his life, living righteously, because of the angel god had sent to change his wrong ways. The sons of Mosiah did what most people from the church would have thought impossible, they went and taught the Lamanites the gospel, and they were very successful, so successful that that almost all of the Lamanites and Nephites were members of Gods