Letter to Dante

Dear Dante, I write to you to speak of your vision of Hell. You describe it in awesome, and often gruesome, detail, but there are a few things that contradict my own vision and beliefs. First, I have grown up in the church, so have been taught all my life that all sins, whether big or small, have the same consequence. Whether you murder, or lie, the same judgment is death. This belief contradicts your …

…and nothing to another. Your book forced me too see past the usual interpretation of things, and look for the deeper thoughts and feelings you, the writer, is trying to express. Through this, your book has changed my perception on classical texts and how applicable they still are to our lives thousands of years later. I am now more interested in reading more classical novels, and also the last two book to your Divine Comedy.