In the article Sometimes the Earth is Cruel by Leonard Pitts, he is pretty much telling the world that life is not fair. Pitts talks about the destruction and sorrow that natural disasters cause, the poor people it happens to, and maybe the world isn’t cruel, maybe it’s God’s doings. What makes life not fair?
To start us off let’s talk a little about the article. Pitts starts his article by talking about Haiti and how it is such a poor country and how it always has natural disasters. Pitts feels sorry for the people of Haiti because they have to face all these terrible tragedies and it takes people’s life and ruins others. Over all though I don’t think he is too worried about the deaths and disasters these people face, his article focuses a lot on the fact that these people are poor and he doesn't sound censer he names off the deaths, the does it in a very casual voice. Then to make it worse he says, in a matter of fact tone. Hey, sometimes the earth is cruel,get over it. Haiti has had the only number 7 earthquake and it took 230,000 lives. Imagine the amount of devastation this caused to families and friends, thousands of people are killed each year.These things are real and they ruin people’s lives, but there is not a lot we can do about it and that is the message Pitts is trying to
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Are they poor because they have no resources. Or is it they are poor because they have to spend over 500 million dollars on rebuilding their country after each disaster. Pitts is feeling sorry that these bad things happen to poor people, but really they are a rich people: always having to spend money to rebuild their life. Pitts does point out that these people are very humble though, so they may not be rich to our standards, but these people are rich in character and that is something we American people lack. It’s very upsetting that these humble people do have to worry about disasters, it is not their fault, but the world was never a fair