A Journal of the Plague Year

First I would like to start off saying that this text was one of the easiest text to read you have given us all year. It was really nice to read something that made sense to me and I didn't have to read over and over a million times. When reading this I was really captivated by it. It seems like everyone had the plague and was just dying in excruciating manners. The way he talked about how he was just walking down the street seeing people die in horrible pain was really intense and made it a very good read. " In these walks I had many dismal scenes before my eyes, as particularly of persons falling dead in the streets, terrible shrieks and screechings of women, who in their, agonies, would throw open their chamber windows and cry out in dismal, surprising manner." This is a quote describing him walking down the streets seeing the horrors of the plague.

I think what was important for people of this time was to be careful. Don't go anywhere near someone who was infected, and don't trust anyone.  You can tell that was the way people acted through the text when the man trying to get a hotel swears he doesn't have the infection " pretending to be going into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being sound and free from the infection." 

I also believe god was more important to people in this time because people were more religious back then, I'm sure they were flocking to the churches and praying to god not to get the horrible infection.