Desertification By Don Marquis Analysis

Many kids may hear their parents tell us an old story about the desert. Once upon a time, there was a green land full of animals and trees living together. Then humans came. They cut down trees, destroyed many animal habitats to get wood. A green land with living creatures turned into a desert. Billions of trees are cut down every year and sooner or later, desert will be all over the world. That’s exactly Don Marquis concerns about. In his essay, “what the ants are saying,” Don Marquis’s poem criticizes humans devastating the natural environment by increasing the deforestation and rapidly promoting the desertification through the voice of Archy, a little cockroach. In his essay, “what the ants are saying,” Marquis states that human are the main cause for devastating the natural environment and promoting the desertification through Archy’s voice. With a realistic tone, and the way Marquis realistically writes the poem to even such little details such as using lower case words because Archy is a cockroach and he can’t jump on the shift key to indicate that the problems we have are real, desertification is real. He also uses persuasive technique such as pathos to appeal readers emotion. He uses many big words …show more content…
When everywhere becomes deserts, where do people get food? Where do they get trees to build our houses? The answer is no where because trees are gone. According to the National Geographic News’ article, “When Green Earth Turns Into Sand”, Donald Smith states, “Desertification is a growing problem not just in Africa, but also in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the northern Mediterranean”. Desertification is spreading all over the world. Many livable, natural environments such as forests or green lands now are just sand and scorpions. As in Marquis’s poem, he creates a little cockroach named Archy to blame humans for what has happened to the