Dead Voice

So I lost my voice so I'm just going to put the main topics up here with what I had to say:

Acorn vs old community: To Ben's comment and Luke's as well. The group chose to live in acorn but that will not erase all conflict. The unfortunate nature of humans will eventually lead to internal conflict whether large or unimportant. Doing the same thing over and over will not yield different results. Touching a hot stove over and over will not make it cold. So that shows how Acorn will follow up into the old community. Furthermore, their experiences will not necessarily save them. They are starting a community from scratch and on top of that they are trying to do what has already been done. The only difference is the unity of the community and the thing with that is that the old community was focused on their survival as well and if anything their fear was a reason to be more paranoid than Acorn's so called experience.

There will come soft rain: The tone of this is calm and slightly nonchalant. It makes the fact that even if the human race eradicates itself, then it doesn't really matter. There is a sense of insignificance. The rhetorical devices such as alliteration, repetition and semi-rhyme just make the message all the easier to take no matter how strong it is. She is explicitly saying that we do not matter. For the first time we are taking nature's perspective and it hurts since it is true.The satire she uses is harsh too. If anything it is more like a Dr. Seuss classic. No matter what, you cannot take it too seriously. In the beginning but by the end there is some really strong messages like in the Lorax and so forth.

Zeena's Paintings: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS444US444&q=thomas+cole's+course+of+empire&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=673&bih=646&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=_7JLT_-EEcGCtgfP55TvAg

Josh's Auchwitz then and Now: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58595000/jpg/_58595296_1wp1_edite1.jpg

Harrison's Pripyat: http://www.personal.psu.edu/adg5036/blogs/adam_glusczyk/2009/04/10/Pripyat.jpg

Humans versus Nature: Humans are also a main part of the food chain. Losing us will create an imbalance which will kill other species as a result.