The poem cleverly comments on how the mining industry is a ‘greedy trade’ and that the greed is all ‘for the sake of the dollar’. This quote questions and challenges the readers and makes them reconsider whether the greed for mining is worth the destruction of the land. The Noonuccal tribe has used many techniques to convey the concept of greed mixed in with nature with references to Aboriginals and the land, creating a poem with political and social undertones. The use of emotive language is a technique used. An example of this is ‘the miner rapes the heart of the earth’.
Robert Gray’s poem ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ is a didactic poem in which the reader is warned of the consequences of humanity’s devastating overindulgent materialism. Gray makes heavy use of allusion, symbolism and imagery, but also uses irony and personification to emphasize and develop his warning. The most effective technique implemented by Gray in ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ to warn the reader is imagery. The city is described as being ‘driven like stakes into the Earth’, symbolizing the merciless and violent imposition of humans on their world. This is also ironic, as humans themselves are a part of the earth and nature, yet are destroying it for their own ends.
The Dust Bowl According to West (2011), the word Dust Bowl is generally understood as an area whose vegetation is lost and soil is eroded. He noted that Dust Bowl is majorly caused by drought or unsuitable farming practice. Hook (2009) on the other hand noted that the word matters much to the Americans than to any other group of the world. He noted that the Americans understand the concept Dust Bowl to mean the parts of the United States (i.e. Oklahoma, Kansas, the Northern Texas, and the New Mexico) which experienced severe soil erosion caused by the effect of windstorms in the 1930s.
Freidrich shows great bitter longing towards Topthorn’s death. Morpurgo has created a breath-taking atmosphere by doing this to increase sympathy for the character. “For God sake he’s dead” Freidrich wails desperately. This shows the admiration the soldiers have for the horses. “For god sake” is a phrase which prickles the readers feelings- it is sharp, strong and full of raw emotions.
They were masters of restoring nutrients to the ground and producing a great deal of food from their soils. Mayan peasants would slash and burn the rainforest and then wait for the ashy nutrients to go deep into the soil before they would farm. When farmers let the land rest, they are trying to make it fallow (fallow means the land was well rested and nutrient rich). These farmers knew that over-farming could ruin the soil and make it impossible to grow on again. When scientists look at dirt today, they can tell a lot about what happened in the past.
It is this juxtaposition of the two cultures that allows the responders to see the loss of indigenous bond to nature to industrialisation. The confrontation that Noonucal instilled in her poem forces her responders to discover the pain the aboriginal
At this point, Golding has developed Jack as a proselytistic character who has converted into the forest life. With this illustration of Jack, Golding has established that Jack’s role in the plot is his rapid evolution into a culpable and stolid monstrosity. Golding, sparing no detail, limns the pinnacle of heinousness of Jack’s character during the scene when he and his adherents are hunting down their prey in a trance. After they had struck down the sow Jack “was on top of the sow stabbing downward with his knife…and the [sow’s] terrified squealing became a high pitched scream” (Golding 135). The author continues, only belaboring the point by depicting Jack’s lassitude, “Jack stood up holding out his hands… ‘Look’…He giggled while the boys laughed at his reeking palms” (Golding 135).
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1992) express their growing concerns of the destructive consequences of alienation and the suffering that results of this. Influenced by the rapid growth of technology and environmental concerns of their composing times, they illustrate their concerns from different perspectives. Both texts explore the suffering of the environment when one isolates themselves or neglects the natural world. Shelley who was heavily influenced by the principles of Romanticism and was personally exposed to writers and poets who believed in the sublime and rejuvenating power of nature, focuses on the suffering that can occur when one isolates themself from the natural world. It is when Victor
23) which foreshadows future acts of savagery and “all the same you need a army for hunting-hunting pigs” (pg.31) which shows an obsession with this primitive action. Throughout all the hunt Golding’s expresses Jacks thrill for the hunt couple examples are “The madness came into his eyes again I thought I might kill” (pg.51) “Jack found the throat and hot blood spouted over his hands…”(pg.149). and “the head is for the beast it’s a gift”(pg.151). As the hunts go on their behavior becomes more violent and vicious. The narrator seems to note the boys transformation by referring to them as savages and how the hide their shame “[they were] safe from shame or consciousness behind the mask of [their] paint”(pg.154).
It is often said that “art” imitates “life”. In our analysis of these two works of literature we can see “art” imitating “life”. Those in charge will always be corrupt because in order for the few “haves” to maintain their way of life, those who “have not” must be tricked into believing something. We are soon introduced to this theme of corruption in Suzzane Collins “The Hunger Games” when we first learn of what the hunger games are. Many years before this story takes place a world war had devastated the Earth and its population.