I write to you to speak of your vision of Hell. You describe it in awesome, and often gruesome, detail, but there are a few things that contradict my own vision and beliefs.
             First, I have grown up in the church, so have been taught all my life that all sins, whether big or small, have the same consequence. Whether you murder, or lie, the same judgment is death. This belief contradicts your vision of the nine circles of Hell, with the different degrease of punishment for the more harsh sins.
             Another description that caught me by surprise was how you depicted Satan frozen in ice. In our culture today Satan is always surrounded by fire, and is large and mighty. But in your novel, he is helpless and frozen in ice. Also on the same topic of Satan is his physical appearance. You described him as having three heads with bat-wings, and hideous. The first thing I think of when someone says Satan is a man with a pointed tail and horns, holding a pitchfork. Your description shows better the awesome hideousness of sin in God's eyes and how it should be like to us.
             Finally, the three greatest sinners you chose for Satan to chew on I kind of disagree with. As I read, Cassius, and Brutus were very bad. They betrayed a friend, and in you vision of hell, that is the worst sin. But Judas Iscariot made me start to think, because it all depends on how you view his actions. You put him in Satan's mouth because he betrayed the Son of God to the Romans, then he was hung on a cross. But in many ways Judas was the key character in the point of Christ coming to the earth,
             because if he didn't betray him, then Christ wouldn't have died and saved the world from eternal damnation. I believe that many times too much blame is put on Judas. If it had not been him, it would have been someone else. Someone had to betray Christ, so the world would be saved by his death.
             One of my favorite scenes in Dante'
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