Reaction Paper

Kellie Krim    

10-4-12

English IV

Ms. Morrell

In the article Earth Without People the author uses imagery to show the readers what it would be like to live on earth without people. The author uses the five senses of imagery to show us what would happen to the earth and how it would look. It talks about how there will be a lot more animals when people are gone, and how in a thousand years the world would look the same as it did before the humans came. Some examples of imagery in the article is “the water-soaked steel columns that support the street above the East side’s of the subway tunnels would corrode and buckle, turning Lexington Avenue into a river” (Weisman, Alan). That is an example of touch because it’s talking about how the columns are damped. “Virginia creeper and poison ivy would claw at the walls covered with lichens, which thrive in the absence of air pollution” (Weisman, Alan).  Is an example of see because they can’t see any air pollution. Another example of touch is “freezing and thawing common in months like March and November would split cement within a decade allowing water to seep in” (Weisman, Alan). That last statement is talking about how cold it gets in the winter and how hot it gets that makes the ice crack easily.