Technology In A White Heron By Sarah Jewett

Technology, depending on the situation, can have a positive or negative outcome. In the short story, “A White Heron” by Sarah Jewett, technology becomes a destructive force that slowly, in the context of the story, takes over nature. In the introduction it becomes clear that nature plays a key part of Sylvia’s world. As the author shifts the focus from nature to Sylvia, the reader finds out that Sylvia had come from a “crowed manufacturing city”. As the story continues, Jewett introduces a small hunting boy, who by the description, the reader can deduce that he is from the city. As the story evolves the reader can see that both Sylvia and the boy have been influenced by their surroundings. Sylvia values nature, while the young boy, who comes from a manufacturing town, has no desire to interrupt his

In the poem titled “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg, we see the question of whether technology has had a positive or negative effect on the city. The author describes the city as a “Tool Maker” who plays with railroads and with the Nations Freight Handler’s. The description helps not only show the specialties of the city, but also its general connection to the evolving technology in the nation. As the poem continues the author begins to show the negative side to technology. The author describes the city as “wicked” and “crooked”, and a place in which women and children have the marks of wanton hunger. Immediately the author turns around, and begins to discuss the positivity of the city. By showing the negative side that technology has, Sandburg is giving forth the example that the negative does not out weight the positive. The technology advances in Chicago have caused negative impacts to the city, but the positive effects that it has had for the improvement of the city and the citizens surpasses the negative