Todd Madsen November 8, 2001 Eng 1002 Mrs. Radek A Heaven on Earth? The people in Linden Hills seem as if they would do almost anything to get ahead in life. As Ruth said in the book when describing the people in Linden Hills, "They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it"(Naylor). The residents are so concerned with making a heaven on earth they made Christianity take a backseat to their earthly aspirations. In …showed first 75 words of 1502 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1502 total…doing anything that could possibly make them part of the stereotype they hate, and this is where they worry too much what others will think. In the book Linden Hills, Gloria Naylor portrays a hell on Earth by paralleling Dante's Inferno in order to show, through her characterization, that putting one's reputation before one's dreams and God's will clouds people's judgment and not only ruins one's after life but one's life on earth as well.