Thesis/Purpose
Identify the author's purpose and thesis, and add your own reactions.
"His Royal Highness Prince Philip, former honorary chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, once said that from above Madagascar looks like a giant animal bleeding into the sea."
Chapter 1: Dancing at the Dead Sea
by Alanna Mitchell, p.53
I personally believe that through this book, Alanna Mitchell wants us to get a better understanding of the world we live in. She wants us to realize that what we see as being neccissary for us may actually be harming the world. I personally never really think about what I am doing and how it could be affecting everything else. Even though I am only about half way through the book it is, so far, making me want to really consider nature a very importand part of my life. It is said that "Less than 10 percent of the forest [in Madagascar] is left. This is causing different species to become homeless and eventually they will become extinct. In the Madagarcar forest the trees are vanishing at the rate of 200,000 hectares a year.
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