This is a broad prompt. Come up with your own specific thesis and defend it. You do not need to use outside materials.
Do not choose both books, a comparative paper is not acceptable.
You can simply mark the page number (or ebook number) for citations, no formal footnoting is necessary unless you choose to quote or use outside material.
Analyze the writer’s perspective by citing specific evidence from the text. Provide two or three examples from the text to support your interpretation. Consider how the writer’s beliefs and actions reflect their views on the “unseen order of the universe,” which can encompass moral considerations related to family life, parenting, work, trade, community, responses to marginalization in America, and other everyday matters, as well as explicit religious ideas and practices. Your discussion of any of these topics could be pertinent to addressing the prompt.