The Theme Of Sometimes The Earth Is Cruel By Leandro Pitts

"Sometimes, though, you have to wonder if the planet itself in not conspiring against this humble little nation." says Pitts. Haiti is political instability from all the earthquakes. Haiti is always dealing with the fact that, its all part of life. They mourn but they get back up and start to rebuild there homes because that is what they have to do. We need to realize that we can help them get back on their feet that they are not alone in this time of trouble. Humanity is a great theme expressed in “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel” by Leandro Pitts. To begin, humanity is expressed in this article by Pitts saying, “Bad enough, all that, yet at the end of the day, those are disasters authored by human hands, by human greed, human corruption, human economic predation.” He is saying that, at the end of each day humans are the ones who are making the disaster. …show more content…
Haiti is always getting hit and is always getting destroyed and we haven'ta done anything to help prevent it from happening again. Another way, humanity is expressed in this article is, the comparison of which Pitts suggests “We are hamstrung by our own limitations, so we can only do what we always do.” Meaning that we are incapable because of all our limitations so all we can do is pray and help. But all we do is watch the people around the would suffer from all the tragedies, Pitts says, "To write relief checks, donate blood. volunteer material and time and to fear, even in the doing, that these gestures are small against the need, inconsequential against the ache of a people whose turn never to end." We are only do a small amount of help when we could doing much more. We watched the Haitians take courage and do what we always do in a time of trouble. Which we have become terribly good at. Another this humans have been good at is just watching from a distance, undergoing the tragedy from the comfort of our