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Sometimes The Earth Is Cruel By Leonard Pitt Summary
Organism's here on planet earth have dealt with mother nature since their creation. Including us. We humans have experienced disasters with magnitudes that would cause extinction of other species of animals. Leonard Pitts, the author of "Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel", described our suffering as, "...as children wail, families sleep out of doors, and the dead lie unclaimed in the rubble." Emotion was not needed, as he described the sights well enough for the reader to feel the anguish of the survivors. The fundemental theme of this text, though quite over-iterated, is to never give up, and when you get on your feet again, give the disaster stricken a hand to stand as well. Leonard Pitts wrote "Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel" briefly after a

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