Analysis Of The Original Human Vocation By Barbara Kingsolver

In the short essay, “The Original Human Vocation” by Barbara Kingsolver, she tells us that us humans are always looking for a sign that the environment will get better. I agree with her. In the essay she talks about the ivory- billed woodpeckers; a bird thought to be extinct for half a century. Then there was talk that it might not be extinct after all. People then started to go see if it was true. Bird enthusiasts and those who weren’t. The Lord God Bird signifies our world and the environment. Like those that sought out the woodpecker, we are always looking for a sign that the world is going to be okay. We look for that validation that says that we didn’t forever mess up the environment in which we live in. I think that even those people