Genre
Agnostic Book
Setting and Context
Written in the context of agnosticism
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tome is skeptical, and the mood is philosophical.
Protagonist and Antagonist
Richard Dawkins is the central character in the book.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Dawkins and the religious belief that God mediates in human beings' lives daily. According to Dawkins, it is absurd and awkward to think God mediates over humanity.
Climax
The climax is when the narrator substantiates the non-existence of God using scientific background. However, the findings contradict religious beliefs and doctrines about the existence of God.
Foreshadowing
The placebo of spiritual people foreshadows the childishness of religion to take an easy way out instead of questioning the obvious.
Understatement
The existence of God is understated in the book.
Allusions
The story alludes to atheist beliefs and justifications that God does not exist in reality.
Imagery
The imagery of the church is predominant in the book because Dawkins describes Christians as people who do not want to face reality by hiding in the church to pass religious beliefs they inherited to the upcoming generations.
Paradox
The main paradox is that Christians believe that their closed-mindedness about the existence of God is a virtue. Still, they discredit other people's thoughts about religion despite showing scientific proof to support their arguments.
Parallelism
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Metonymy and Synecdoche
Placebo is used as metonymy for an excuse used by religious people to avoid questioning the existence of God using other approaches except for Christianity.
Personification
Dawkins personifies science as the truth.
