Sinners Like Me

and how lucky Peter was that he got to walk to Jesus on the waves. Nothing was special about Peter. He was a sinner just like you and me, but Jesus favored him. He has more mistakes written about him than (I think) any other disciple. Why? Jesus didn’t want the rich and the elite. He wanted filthy sinners who were desperate for Him. And no greater character is there who portrays this like Peter. Before the story even takes place, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny Him three times before the rooster

Dante Alighieri’s poem Inferno relies heavily on the usage of topography to closely mimic the sins and characterizations of the sinners involved in the poem. A common topography trope, alongside rivers and the temperature, is Dante’s inclusion of forests. Although only present in the first and thirteenth cantos, the forest is one of the few landscapes Dante mentions both outside and inside hell. The uncertainty and doubt caused by forests, because of their seclusion and frightening atmosphere, represents

mist begins to fall. The sinners here are tending to a dry garden bed. Feeble browned plants are equally spaced apart, giving each sinner their own plant to tend to. Watching and directing them is an ominous shaded figure referred to as the FOREMAN. The eyes of the sinners are milky white accredited to blindness. At the demanding crack of his whip the DRIFTERS must strenuously break up the brittle soil, sow seeds, and tend and water their fruitless crop by hand. They do

are still alive can go, but it is an actual place that God has created for people to go who do not ask for forgiveness for the sins that they committed on this earth. Everyone sins, so ultimately Hell cannot be a place for sinners. Heaven is also a place that contains sinners, the difference between the two is that those individual souls in Heaven have repented for their sins and are sorry, and those

himself. In The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Dante defines the meaning of good. To Dante, “good” are the sinners who sinned by accident and ended up in Hell because of it. Dante believes there are good

Through out the course of history, those who were considered sinners were often out casted from the society. This is much the case with Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. After a public trial, Hester is considered a sinner due to her birthing of a so called “devil child”. Hester is convicted to the life long bearing of a scarlet letter on her chest. The Scarlet Letter that Hester Prynne wears symbolizes the change in perception of sin through out the novel. Due to the revelations

Pilgrim observes past sinners on his path to salvation, the road to discovering purpose involves learning from life and reflecting on it. Additionally, Dante’s emotional trials and tribulations connect the reader with their own daily psychological struggles. (maybe add a transition here;The

Nathaniel Hawthorne's “ The Minister's Black Veil “ and Jonathan Edwards “ Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God” are writings that have much significance to religion, having a strong belief in god. “The Minister's black veil “ and “Sinners In The Hands of an angry god: may seem similar since they talk on the behalf of religion, they have differences such as the punishment, damnation, and who the sinners are. Edwards agrees that everyone is predestined and anyone no matter who you are can go to

character from The Crucible, that is looked at as a sinner and an outcast. He had an affair with his seventeen year old servant, who accuses his wife of witchcraft. When he tries to save his wife he is accused of witchcraft and is hung for it. John Proctor and I have a few personality traits in common in that we are sinners, outcasts and rational individuals. To begin with John Proctor and I are both sinners. John Proctor was a fairly big sinner in his Puritan society. He had an affair with a seventeen

different sinners in Hell, which provides an insight on the way he feels about people who do not repent. Although they are illustrated as good people by the poet, they are punished within the different circles of Hell because they did not cleanse themselves of sin. Through the uses of diction, actions of Dante and Virgil, and imagery, Alighieri was able to show readers he felt compassion towards Farinata Degli Uberti, Pier Delle Vigne, and Count Ugliono. Alighieri shows compassion towards a sinner in the