"Earth without people" reaction paper

Earth Without People Reaction Paper

The author uses imagery, which includes five senses, to let the article more convincing and easy to understand, especially sight.

First of all, the rising groundwater exacerbates the problem, “ailanthus roots heave up sidewalks and split sewers in New York”. Because of “there is little soil to absorb it, or vegetation to transpire it, and buildings block the sunlight that could evaporate it”. Pumps would be stilled with the power off and the streets would crater. The author uses sight to let us have a strong imagery that the streets and cities will crater if there is al lot of underwater. He illustrates the reason clearly and the article is easy for us to understand.

Second, the author uses sight to describe New York’s architecture. “A dry lightning strike, igniting decades of uncut, the knee-high Central Park grass, which tons of leaf litter native oaks and maples in city parks, will spread flames through town”. The author uses sight and many nouns, such as lightning, grass, and flame to let us imagery easy to picture a real scene.

The author also uses touch to imagery. “Touching down so lightly that they detonate no land mines” is one of the examples. It let people understand clearly and tells us that the red-crowned cranes don’t detonate land mines.

The author uses much imagery like sight, listen, touch, smell and taste, to let readers understand the article easily.