Book Review: The Sinking of Noah's Ark

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Sinking of Noah's Ark     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Trysdan Roberts
Class/Genre:   Fiction   Religious Fiction
Virtual Bookworm, 2003, 116 pp.

Ever since he was a young child, Noah wanted to escape the small Maine fishing hamlet of Walden’s Cove. He was not a social creature preferring to spend time with books rather than people. On the day he saw his brother killed in an automobile accident he became an atheist and distanced himself from his parents who found comfort in the church.

At college, he throws himself into his studies, a loner who wants to learn about the essence of man when God is removed from the equation. One day his mother tells him that his father died at sea and she needs him. He drives in a terrible storm to get home as quickly as possible but gets into an accident and falls unconscious. Noah awakens in a court room where he must defend God by proving that the creation of man was not evil. If he fails to persuade the jury, mankind will cease to exist. During recesses Noah is transported to a playground where his brother Aidan plays in the sandbox. The young child teaches his adult brother some truths about their hometown and their parents that Noah takes to heart.

Noah, his brother, the prosecutor, the five guardians who serve as jurors symbolize the inherit nature of man be he good or evil. When told that God exists, all of Noah’s preconceptions are destroyed enabling him to see the light in his own life. He fights to prove that man is not inherently evil due to God’s creation of him but because that is the path some of humanity chooses to follow as part of God’s gift of free will. The brilliant use of symbolic logic turns the reader pensive analyzing his or her own belief system. THE SINKING OF NOAH’S ARK is surprisingly not a religious book but a work that critiques human behavior.

Harriet Klausner

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