Chapter 4-6

Chapters 4-6

A discussion seems to have stirred whether or not the author of this book keeps going off instead of focusing on the theme of the story. I tend to disagree for with what people have been blogging about. I think the story is not in any way interesting, which is against her journalism and writing skills. That I do agree with, but I feel like it's different when you're writing a book. She needs to somewhat get off track for a few reasons. One of those reasons is that she doesn't want to bore those who think would think what she's writing about starts to make you fall asleep. She's trying to wake you up. Whether if it's with comedy or just a sidenote about something, she's trying. I ask you to go out and try to write a book about global warming and see how entertaining you can make it. For example she said in chapter 4 about the Comma Butterfly. She describes the larval looking like a bird dropping which is a funny image and keeps you entertained as well as informed.

As far as the rest of chapter 4 is concerned I feel as if she could have explained more about the butterfly migrgrating due to the warmer weather. Go into further detail on how it's global warming is that main reason for the butterfly to migrate.

When chapter 5 rolled around she would start to right more factual information. Maybe she could have changed the way she jumped from one thing to another within the chapter, but she felt it was the time to get almost 100% serious about the topic and try to win you over there. It is confusing, but I feel the previous chapters were somewhat of a set up in order to get you to understand better when she actually talks about global warming and different areas involving it. It can still be confusing, but I feel that was the point of the previous chapters.

I guess you can say chapter 6 is more of an entertainment chapter somewhat. Even though she talks about the rise of sea levels and what not, she does talk about the idea of floating houses eventually. Due to the water levels rising, people would have to eventually live in floating houses. Even though it was somewhat serious, I would assume a lot of people would take that as a joke. Of course that would not be fun at all once a storm hits, but she tried to make it entertaining, atleast compared to the more seriousness of chapter 5.