Diary Of Interesting Year By Helen Simpson Analysis

“Diary of Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson; narrated from a women’s perspective, who was never named through the story. The story was written in a journal format with dates and included times occasionally. The journal starts off in the year 2040 in February, the women start off talking about the journal that her Husband G bought for her for her birthday that she used to document the year. Everything starts off fine then there is a sudden disturbance in the environment. Sewage overflowing in the streets and outbreaks of Cholera, which is a diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. Forced out their normal lives; The narrator and her husband tried adjusting to the post global-warming world. One day her husband was murdered, the narrator does not go into detail about it.

M sexually abuses and beats the narrator, then the narrator realizes that she is pregnant by M. She knows there is not any hospitals or safe care she can get for the baby or herself and she knows there is a chance that neither she or the baby will survive in the conditions. She kills M and her baby for the greater good of the child because there is a small chance that the baby will survive. Could be possible if global warming took as a more serious matter that the post-global warming world would have never happened? “Dairy of an Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson is effective as result to serve as a warning from Hedi Cullen’s theory to evoke emotion and engage audience by giving a glimpse of what could happen in the future if global warming is not took more