In both "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA" and "To a Mouse", they say that humanity can be both good and bad. They may be in different contexts, but both are talking about how humanity treats their environment and home. Humanity can choose to be good to the planet and other species around them, but more often than not, they choose not to.
In "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author says that humanity can be a dangerous and highly invasive species. It states this in a quote from paragraph 4 in "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", "'Contents: Humanity. Use extreme caution. Highly invasive. Spreads rapidly. Wastes resources. Dangerous to all other species.'" In this viewpoint of humanity destroying their planet, humanity …show more content…
If they just try to keep their environment clean and healthy, and if they just treat other species right, they can continue to strive on Earth and be known for their kindness. In "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author talks about humanity being a very social species. He talks about how they need love and care more than they need material things. Therefore, in paragraph 13 of "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author states "These communitarian impulses drive us, too, and for most of us they are deeper and more fulfilling than naked materialism. The need to connect with others and with place. They yearning to be part of something larger, for spiritual meaning. The urge to dance and sing. Loving and being loved. The pleasure of giving." The author, Charles Wohlforth, is saying that humanity is naturally an extremely social species. Most people even agreeing that it's better than materialistic things. This is the viewpoint he wants humanity to …show more content…
The character is shown feeling sympathy for the poor mouse. He or she feels bad for accidentally destroying the mouse's home. In lines 13-14 from "To a Mouse", the poet says, "I doubt now, sometimes, that you may steal; What then? Poor beast, you must live!" The poet is showing that the character feels bad and is perfectly fine with the mouse stealing some food. He or she believes that the mouse must live. From lines 15-18, it states, "An odd ear in twenty-four sheaves is a small request; I will get a blessing with what is left, and never miss it." The character says that he or she doesn’t care that the mouse steals an odd sheave, he or she will still have enough to be blessed and not care about the few sheaves missing. In line 19 of "To a Mouse", it says, "Your small house, too, in ruin!" The author feels bad because he or she was the one who destroyed it and a few lines later is says that the mouse doesn’t have any material to make a new one due to it being so close to Winter. Just like "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", "To a Mouse" shows the better side of humanity as
In "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author says that humanity can be a dangerous and highly invasive species. It states this in a quote from paragraph 4 in "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", "'Contents: Humanity. Use extreme caution. Highly invasive. Spreads rapidly. Wastes resources. Dangerous to all other species.'" In this viewpoint of humanity destroying their planet, humanity …show more content…
If they just try to keep their environment clean and healthy, and if they just treat other species right, they can continue to strive on Earth and be known for their kindness. In "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author talks about humanity being a very social species. He talks about how they need love and care more than they need material things. Therefore, in paragraph 13 of "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", the author states "These communitarian impulses drive us, too, and for most of us they are deeper and more fulfilling than naked materialism. The need to connect with others and with place. They yearning to be part of something larger, for spiritual meaning. The urge to dance and sing. Loving and being loved. The pleasure of giving." The author, Charles Wohlforth, is saying that humanity is naturally an extremely social species. Most people even agreeing that it's better than materialistic things. This is the viewpoint he wants humanity to …show more content…
The character is shown feeling sympathy for the poor mouse. He or she feels bad for accidentally destroying the mouse's home. In lines 13-14 from "To a Mouse", the poet says, "I doubt now, sometimes, that you may steal; What then? Poor beast, you must live!" The poet is showing that the character feels bad and is perfectly fine with the mouse stealing some food. He or she believes that the mouse must live. From lines 15-18, it states, "An odd ear in twenty-four sheaves is a small request; I will get a blessing with what is left, and never miss it." The character says that he or she doesn’t care that the mouse steals an odd sheave, he or she will still have enough to be blessed and not care about the few sheaves missing. In line 19 of "To a Mouse", it says, "Your small house, too, in ruin!" The author feels bad because he or she was the one who destroyed it and a few lines later is says that the mouse doesn’t have any material to make a new one due to it being so close to Winter. Just like "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA", "To a Mouse" shows the better side of humanity as