Blood of the moon: the assasination of Abraham Lincoln
...ohn Wilkes Booth’s eight murder partners then on Booth himself. Steer explains that on the eve of Lincoln’s execution, a plan was converted between John Wilkes Booth and the selected co-conspirators. The ideal plan was to go on accordingly. On the night of April 14, 1865 the team surveyed the lives of who they were going to eradicate. George Atzerodt took the command to kill Vice- President, Andrew Jackson. The following two, Lewis Powell and David Harold, were assigned the duty to slay the present day Secretary of State, William Seward. Simultaneously, Booth would take the life of Abraham Lincoln at the Ford’s Theater. Edward Steer brings you into the homicide of only Lincoln. He refers back to supplementary partners explaining that they did not follow through as they said they would. The only hope that John Wilkes Booth could rely on was Mary Suratt’s tavern, which she promised to have medical supplies and medical attention by Dr. Samuel Mudd. The few days after the massacre was completed, government officials discovered Booth and the other eight confederates hiding in Garett’s farm in Port Royal, Virginia. On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was shot to his death by failing to cooperate with the authority. The other accomplices were sent to trial and found guilty and then hung on July 7, 1865. In writing this novel, Edward Steer decides to use a certain technique in describing Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. He refers to it as subjective in a style that brings your focus to what the antagonist’s influences were instead of how they performed the corruption. He also combines two forms of the subjective writing with narrative and literary methods. This approach makes the reader feel as though they were sitting in the theater box watching the President as he was shot. In researc...