"A fable for tomorrow"(it could happen today!)

This story is very eye catchy because the author uses caparison and contrast to show us the difference of these two worlds she imagines. She is trying to demonstrate what danger human can do to their environment. As she begins she talks about this wonderful world where everyone lives in harmony, “The town lay in the midst of a checkboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.” Then once she has completely described the wonderful world, she talks about what that world became and says, “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of the new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” She later proceeds to talk about how the actual town she has described didn’t go through everything she mentioned, but everywhere around the world communities have suffered at least one of all the results brought on to people because of people. In my opinion she is telling us to be aware of the world that surrounds us and not to let things slide by just because they are not happening to us. Awareness is the key factor of this essay, learn to care for other especially nature, that is the one that helps us survive.