Humanities Homework Help

In this response, you will use a provided thesis to write a mini-literary analysis of pages 47-97 in Elizabeth Rush’s book Rising.

For e-books, this is “The Marsh at the End of the World,” “Pulse,” and “On Reckoning.”

Thesis: Most of us tend to define nature, generally speaking, as wild spaces and their inhabitants, both of which are largely unaffected by people. In other words, the natural world is distinct from the human world. But Rising collapses the idea of nature. The book presents what most people typically understand as “nature” and reveals it to be so deeply changed by people that the traditional understanding of nature ceases to exist.

Directions: Write a literary analysis that defends the argument above.