Letters from Earth Analysis Essay

In Mark Twains Letters from Earth after a brief introduction by Twain, the story shifts to the letters written by hellion to his friends in heaven. In the first letter, Satanwho has been banished to Earth for one thousand Earth days goes on to say that the battalion, the another(prenominal) animals, the earth itself are all insane. Nature itself is insane. This first letter is a very blunt disceptation on human arrogance and hypocrisy. He says goes on to explain his declaration over the course of the close ten letters.The second letter explains the curiosity that is heaven as it is perceived on the earth. First and foremost, Satan points out that sexual intercourse is absent in this version of heaven. This is a peculiarity, due to the amount of strain placed on it during human life. He wonders why they would leave it out if they enjoy it so lots on earth.In fact, people have created a heaven full of things they dont value. On earth, most men do not sing and/or cannot stand sin ging, very few people play instruments, people dont like to pray, people are bored in church, everyone looks gobble up upon everyone else, all sane people detest noise. Keeping that in mind, Satan wonders why then that heaven is full of endless church services where everyone loves everyone else while they all sing and play a melodious instrument.In letter three, Christianity is discussed. Satan claims that humans desire to be like (their) God, yet God is aught to emulate. God punished Adam and Eve when he really had no reason to tempt them in the first place. He also continued to punish the next generations for a crime they did not indue (in regards to the forbidden fruit). People dont treat their children that way, yet they claim to live in the go out of God. He has set rules, yet he himself does not follow them.