“Even in his sleep he couldn't escape.” This was a quote said by the author of the book “Asylum.” Dan, the main character, kept having these terrible nightmares after going into the abandoned office and seeing all of the “clues” and pictures in it. The Puritans would oppose the novel, “Asylum” due to the strong belief in ghosts, not respecting authority, and living sinful lives.
The Puritans would loathe the book “Asylum” because of the strong belief in ghosts. Dan, Abby, and Jordan heard weird noises, have bad nightmares, and start to see things after they go into abandoned office, that they broke into. They found old pictures, old glasses, old files, and even bloody handprints.. They also have a strong belief in ghosts because Dan kept receiving these weird emails about a patient. He found some papers in the office about the same patient that he got these creepy emails about. But, when he went to click on them to show Abby, they vanished. Like they were never even there in the first place. They weren't in his trash folder, or his spam folder. It popped up in his sent folder, like he was having a conversation with them. Last but not least, they can never sleep at night, but if they do, they …show more content…
have terribly creepy nightmares about what they sw in the office.
The second reason why the Puritans would destroy the book “Asylum” is because of the non-respecting authorities.
Dan and his friends do not respect any authorities of Brookline campus that they're for the summer. They break into the abandoned office all the time to figure out what makes the whole entire building so creepy. But, when they do find things in the office, sometimes they take them for clues. They also sneak around. Jordan’s parents don’t even know that he is at the Brookline campus for the summer. They think that he is at a gay reversal camp. If they get caught breaking into the office and/or taking anything, they could get into a lot of trouble, and probably kicked out of the campus for the whole summer, then Jordan’s parents would find out where he
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The final reason why the Puritans would ban the book “Asylum” is because they live sinful lives. They all live sinful lives because of what they choose to do. One, they swear, which is a huge sin to the Puritans. They also have some underage drinking going on when Abby sometimes mixes alcohol into her drinks or coffee to make her stay awake and alert during school. She offers Dan some sips and he takes it. The final reason is the biggest sin they commit during the summer. And that is when they break into the abandoned office and takes things out of it.
Strong belief in ghosts, not respecting authorities, and living sinful lives, would make the Puritans oppose the book “Asylum.” Imagine what the Puritans would do or feel if they saw and heard ghosts, and heard all of the creepy stories. They would believe it would have to be some type of witchcraft, and they would arrest and ban any person “accused” of it.