The Anthropocene Reviewed :Readings & Reading Responses
Introduction-- (Hank had been with me on the book tour that fall of 2017, and to pass the time on long drives between cities, we'd try to one-up each other with absurd Google user reviews for the place we drove past. A user named Lucas, for example, gave Badlands National Park one star. " Not enough mountain," he reported. )
-- (In the years since I'd been a book reviewer, everyone had become a reviewer, and everything had become a subject for reviews. The five-star scale was applied not just to books and films but to public restrooms and wedding photographers. The medication I take to treat my obsessive-coapulsive disorder has more than 1,100 ratings at Drugs.com, with an average score of 3.8. A scene in the movie adaptation of my book The Fault in Our Stars was filmed on a bench in Amsterdam; that bench now has hundreds of Google reviews. (My favorite, a three-star review, reads in its entirety: "It is a bench.")
In my opinion, this is a fascinating and moving passage for me, a passage where the author had a great time on a drive with his friends and gets them to talk a lot together. I think it also helped him to have a whole new idea and understanding of what he was going to do later on. I think what fascinates me is the image that comes to mind of traveling in the car with my best friend, talking about the good things about each other is a very memorable time.
Identify at least one passage where the writer incorporates research
Cave Paintings-- (The lyrics of "You'll Never Walk Alone" contain only the most obvious imagery: The song tells us to "walk on through the wind and through the rain," which is not a particularly clever evocation of a storm. We are also told to "walk on with hope in your heart," which feels aggressively trite.
And it reports that "at the end of the storm, there's a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark." But in reality, at the end of the storm, there are tree branches strewn everywhere, and downed power lines, and flooded rivers.)
In this passage, the writer does some research on the lyrics in the song. For example in the lyrics of You'll Never Walk Alone, through the wind through the rain keep going. The author mentions a clever portrayal of the storm first of all I am a very fond of listening to music and I always listen to music when I am bored and alone and read the words in the music as well as thinking further about the circumstances under which the singer could have written the words and imagining what he was going through, so in this essay I think that the lyrics that the author mentions contain a lot of meanings for him. I think that the lyrics mentioned by the author contain a lot of meanings and that he feels differently about them.
Identify at least one passage where the writer incorporates reflection
Reader's Choice( You will never walk alone)-- (The cave paintings at Lascaux exist. You cannot visit. You can go to the fake cave we've built, and see nearly identical hand stencils, but you will know: This is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it. This is a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory that you cannot return to. And to me, that makes the cave very much like the past it represents.)
In my opinion, I have different feelings about this passage , because I am from Beijing, China. A country with a long history, Beijing is also a very historical city, since I was a child, my parents would always take me to the famous attractions in Beijing to visit. For example, the Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall and so on... those attractions have hundreds and thousands of years of history, but they have different degrees of damage and destruction. In these famous attractions, we can see the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people and their hard labor. With the advancement and development of technology nowadays, it is possible to make exact replicas to replace them. However, the meaning of these artifacts does not represent the hard work and dedication of the ancient people. Although these artifacts are unique, and also suffered some destruction and damage, but the memory of history can not escape than the baptism of the years a level of time to wear.
