Save Your Breath, Screw the Sarcasm
“Your greed and vanities and quest for self-fulfillment have been catered too far too much. You just want and want and want. You believe in yourself excessively. You don’t believe in Nature anymore...Your eyes glaze as you travel life’s highway.” -Joy Williams, Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp This quote is taken from a biting sarcastic piece aimed at revealing how ironic and ridiculous human behavior is. We are aware of the ways in which we harm the environment, and yet we are too lazy to change our lifestyles and too greedy to even face or confront these problems. Williams begins her peice with this very passage, wasting no time in her quest to blame the reader and all of humanity for essentially destroying the earth and all of its living things. Her capitalization of the “N” in Nature displays her reverence for the wildlife she discusses in this text. She begins each sentence with “You”, giving the impression of fired insults. Instead of subtly revealing a truth, she tells r...
