Wake Up Call: Feeling for the Environment
The desolate wasteland after human's impact on it.
1. Human Aftermath
2. Before human involvement
Le Lac not only has a small section that seems to be years of a timeline merged into just a few seconds, but it also has an overall chiasmus. The very initial and closing scenes are reverse clips of each other, with the start showing the background dissolve away and the end is seen to have the background dissolve in. The next two in line start with the opening of the environment unharmed and then ends with images of dead animals. In the very middle of these 5 parts is the shuttering flip through of the images seen on page 1. All of these parallels are used to highlight that we are the ones doing the damage. Putting the reader into this timeline where they can clearly see the aftermath of humans in the environment creates a sense of panic. Given what Capaldi, CA states that "humans have an inborn tendency to affiliate with other living things, such as the natural environment. The human need to connect and identify with nature is rooted in our evolutionary history" (Capaldi), seeing these images (after being drawn into the text as described on page 1) creates a feeling of doubt as we watch something we are so connected with --- being killed by us. Le Lac draws in the players and presents them with the idea that they are not only killing wildlife with their actions, but also ourselves.
