It Is Dangerous To Read Newspaper By Margaret Atwood Analysis

Selfishness and inconvenience can lead to far worst conflict. In this poem, it shows how harsh and cruel life can be. There were many people dying every day and fighting for a living. However, for those who live in the peaceful areas, they basically did nothing about helping the world. The fact that they did not do anything about it, it’s because they only care about themselves and not willing to take a stand to solve the problem. In the poem of “It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers” by Margaret Atwood. One way to read about this poem is that people should take responsibility to the things around them, it’s everyone’s obligation to help the world and help those who suffered from a disease, war, poverty and etc.

First of all, the author suggests that the castles he is playing in a sandbox made him think about the people that got buried. For example, “hasty pits were filling with bulldozed corpses” it’s saying that there were many things that we use that cause no harm, but they could also treat it as a harmful tool too. The author simply means the bodies that were buried in the large pits in the Holocaust, it fills with the Jews and other people. In summary, the author is trying to tell us that the world that we are live in is

“My feet stepping on cracks in the cement detonated red bombs” The author is saying that there are still wars happening in this world, and some people simply ignored. Perhaps, some people were stepped on the cracks but others were stepped on a live bomb. In summary, the author is telling us that we should care about what happened to us and open our heart to help other people that were suffering instead of ignoring or pretend that it never