Sometimes it appears that the earth is more cruel to one group or person than it is to any other. This "Earth is Cruel" idea focuses this time on how the earth appears to pick on the "little guys", the ones with the least, who always manage to bounce back just in time for earth to show it's cruelty again. How is it determined who faces the wrath of the planet that we all share? In Pitts' story he shows how the Haitian people appear to always be facing the wrath of this planet through natural disasters such as earthquakes and tropical storms that have the capacity to devastate large numbers of the population. "Sometimes the seas rise and smack the shoreline like a fist." says Pitts referring the earth that fails to "bully" the country into
