Summary Of Sometimes The Earth Is Cruel By Leonard Pitt

On January 10, 2010, Haiti experienced one of the strongest earthquakes to date. At a 7.0-magnitude, the earthquake took as many as one hundred thousand lives and destroyed countless homes throughout Haiti. "Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel" by Leonard Pitts, wrote an article that described the tragedy that struck the Haitian community and how they were able to weather through it all. Pitts uses personifications, metaphors, and anaphoras to establish that despite all the cruelties of earth, people can overcome anything. The Haitian community has experienced multiple disastrous earthquakes in the past. "Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel" consequently perceived "the planet itself" as trying to "conspire against the humble little nation," Haiti. As a result, Pitts personified the earth as something living that had a specific vendetta against Haiti because of all the misfortune it has brought their way. Another form of personification is the title "sometimes, the earth is cruel" because it is a recurrent phrase used throughout the article. Granted that the earth is a place, Pitts

Experiencing and moving on from natural disasters is what Pitt's believes is "the price of being human." This metaphor represents how being human comes with a price, that price being, among others, the victims of numerous natural disasters. Through it all, we just have to "accept that as a part of the bargain called life" according to Pitts. That bargain being in exchange for being able to live on such a beautiful planet and experience many wonderful things about life, we have to endure all that the earth chooses to bestow upon us. But that does not mean that humans can't "show the world once again a stubborn insistence on living, despite all the cruelties of the earth." No matter what happens, like the Haitian community, humans can move on through tough