Comparing Pico Iyer And Bell Hooks
Sarah Kaur
Professor Stern
Essay #1 Imagine a life where everyone is connected with nature and not connected through their cell phones. A place where individuals are making changes to benefit themselves and the future generations. Today’s generation are living for the moment and not really thinking about the consequence for their actions. Pico Iyer and Bell Hooks both argues that people should start making “inner changes” in order to make “outer changes.” So what does this mean? Individuals should start thinking differently, stop challenging each other and start cooperating. With this one can possibly obtain Inner Peace.
Pico Iyer argues in the Inner Climate that people should be closer to the environment than they are with technology. …show more content…
She wants to restore the broken connection with black folks and other people with nature because she feels that it’s lost. “The sense of union and harmony with nature expressed here is echoed in testimony black people who found that even though life in the new world was “harsh, harsh,” relationship to the earth one could be at peace.” (Hooks) When black folks lived close to nature, they’re one. Like when they farm, they felt a connection with the earth and it pleased their soul. They had this personal power and well-being when working and growing their own food. But when they migrated from the South to the Industrial North, it corrupted them, “...wounded the psyches of the black folks.” (Toni Morrison) These people were used to working on the soil, so when they moved it was all new, and it was hard starting a new life. The industrial north makes them feel alone because they weren’t working together anymore. In Waring Cuney poem, he described how ugly ‘she’ feels when she’s not close with nature. She blinded because she’s being judged for her skin color and she thinks has no beauty. “If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river she would know…,” she would know how beautiful she is, nature makes her feel this way. It covers up her flaws and she feels connected to the earth. It gives her freedom because she know who she is with this connection. This gives her
Professor Stern
Essay #1 Imagine a life where everyone is connected with nature and not connected through their cell phones. A place where individuals are making changes to benefit themselves and the future generations. Today’s generation are living for the moment and not really thinking about the consequence for their actions. Pico Iyer and Bell Hooks both argues that people should start making “inner changes” in order to make “outer changes.” So what does this mean? Individuals should start thinking differently, stop challenging each other and start cooperating. With this one can possibly obtain Inner Peace.
Pico Iyer argues in the Inner Climate that people should be closer to the environment than they are with technology. …show more content…
She wants to restore the broken connection with black folks and other people with nature because she feels that it’s lost. “The sense of union and harmony with nature expressed here is echoed in testimony black people who found that even though life in the new world was “harsh, harsh,” relationship to the earth one could be at peace.” (Hooks) When black folks lived close to nature, they’re one. Like when they farm, they felt a connection with the earth and it pleased their soul. They had this personal power and well-being when working and growing their own food. But when they migrated from the South to the Industrial North, it corrupted them, “...wounded the psyches of the black folks.” (Toni Morrison) These people were used to working on the soil, so when they moved it was all new, and it was hard starting a new life. The industrial north makes them feel alone because they weren’t working together anymore. In Waring Cuney poem, he described how ugly ‘she’ feels when she’s not close with nature. She blinded because she’s being judged for her skin color and she thinks has no beauty. “If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river she would know…,” she would know how beautiful she is, nature makes her feel this way. It covers up her flaws and she feels connected to the earth. It gives her freedom because she know who she is with this connection. This gives her