Journal 23: Tom Walker and John Edwards

Tom Walker and John Edwards are actually quite similar in their work because of the fact that they are both of the Dark Romanticism technique of writing. In the Dark Romanticism they highlight the flaws and vice of the people instead of showing the virtue and superiority of nature or of the hero in the traditional romanticism writing. In the Tom Walker story Tom Walker is portrayed as a person with a very hungry and  greedy heart and wants a lot of money. However, his wife is even more greedy so the story foreshadow the punishment of being greedy by showing that his wife went to the devil and never returned. Tom Walker did not heed the warning and went to the devil. the devil took him away because he is still greedy and the greediness did not go. In the sermon delivered  by John Edward, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, John Edwards is giving warning to the people that if we don't take Jesus in as our savior we will go to hell and the only reason we are not in hell the very second is because we are saved by God's grace, his hands. He can take his hands away from us anytime and we would plunged in the darkness of the inferno and the only way to avoid that is to believe that Jesus is our savior.