Comparing Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God And The Devil And Tom Walker

The stories, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and The Devil and Tom Walker each have there own style, theme, purpose of the writing, but most importantly they share similarities and differences.

In the story from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God the author Jonathan Edwards gave a sermon with a purpose of warning people that they must turn to God for forgiveness before it is too late. If the people listened and turned to God they would be able to escape death by hell. Although, the only way forgiveness would be received is if the person was chosen by God through Jesus Christ, and they accepted. Edwards made it clear that if you were reached out with the opportunity to be forgiven and you reject, then you would be die by hell fire.

Edwards would use long sentences to set a tone that would show frustration and anger. Not only did he use sentences to describe his tone but he would also repeat words and use strong hateful words to describe the tone as well. Edwards also would use similes to set a tone and describe the importance of sinning. Finally the theme to this story was how sinful people are and how angry god is, but the moral to this story is that god is a powerful person and that if you want a good life you need to seek his

First, the biggest similarity would be that both stories share a type of sin. For example, the story Sinners is just strictly about God being hateful and people should be asking for forgiveness in those sins where the story Devil is strictly about one who would sell his wife’s soul and let her die before loosing his valuables and spending money. Therefore, those stories both share a valuable characteristic that would be sin. Another similarity shared between the two stories would be God. In Sinners Edwards claims that if you accept the choice to be forgiven you will forever live a good life without sins. Where in Devil the character Tom lives with sin his whole life, the entire story, but at one point he begins to go to church and do exactly what Edwards claims you should do in order to live a good life. The stories both share similarities in some way, whether it be overlapping or just having the same idea, both of them relate in some