Chapter 12 Week 5, Instructor Calendar, March 1898 What, in your own part, can you say to this? I.iii Not even the busy routine of campus life was enough over the next few days to distract Concordia from her worry over Eli. Sophia sent her daily messages, but there was little news to report. Concordia tried pushing her fears to the back of her mind as she spent the evening grading student essays on Paradise Lost. She clucked her tongue at some of the silliest opening sentences that she had seen in a long while. Milton was a blind poet, which made it quite difficult to write Paradise Lost, even though he asked for sight in the beginning of the story. Paradise Lost is about Satan being happy in hell, and trying to get Adam and Eve to join him. He does so through the weaker of the two,