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The first thing I’d like to touch on is the title, Lucifer’s Hammer<\/span>. I think that something alone the line of God’s Hammer<\/span> would have been more fitting. Obviously the wacko minister would agree with this title because he viewed the comet as God’s work, a way to think out the population and destroy all of the evil, man-made atrocities. There were a lot of people who also, in a way, got what they wanted when the Hammer fell. Harvey Randall, for example, was let go from all of his familial and financial obligations. Gary Vance was brought back from the verge of suicide after the comet struck because he felt he now had something to live for. Maureen Jellison finally felt as though she had a purpose in life as well. The novel is filled with character’s who flourish after the comet strikes.<\/p>\n \n I suppose Lucifer’s Hammer<\/span> is an appropriate title because it refers to an event that killed the majority of the earth’s population and lead people to murder, loot, and cannibalize. It’s much easier to point to a devastating event such as the Hamner-Brown comet and characterize it as the work of Satan rather than the work of God. Perhaps this apocalyptic event was merely just a chance for the few survivors to find a real purpose and calling in life. However, a title like God’s Hammer might put too much focus or sway on the evangelical aspect of the novel. Since the only real mention of religion is associated with the aforementioned wacko minister, a title involving the word, God may have narrowed the reader’s field of vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first thing I’d like to touch on is the title, Lucifer’s Hammer. I think that something alone the line of God’s Hammer would have been more fitting. Obviously the wacko minister would agree with this title because he viewed the comet as God’s work, a way to think out the population and destroy all… Continue reading God’s Hammer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}