Summary Of An Animal's Place And Death Of A Moth

The literature I chose to read this week was An Animal’s Place and The Death of a Moth. These two reading were similar in the way that they talked about living. In The Death of a Moth, Virginia Wolf used the moth as a simile for humans’ life. In her writing she described how gentle a moth is, and how simple its life can be. In An Animals Place, Michael Pollan takes directly about animals and their lives with no similes or metaphors. She talks about the ways they are treated. She even told the reader that some countries have given animals more rights. What I took away from both Pollan and Wolf ‘s writings is that no matter what species something is, in the end it is living. That would be my first advice to youth. I would tell them that life