Climate Change

Ellmann uses the lioness to convey observations about the deterioration of the planet. Throughout her excerpts, the lioness repeatedly expresses her disdain for humans and the ease with which they destroy nature. She frequently comments on the noisy, smelly vehicles in which humans traverse the earth, expressing frustration at their ability to gouge the ground and drown out the sound of her crying kittens. The lioness demonstrates how these pollutive machines jeopardize nature using hostile adjectives to describe them. During her search for the cubs, the lioness also travels through a brook filled with human waste. Some of the garbage that people carelessly discard in this water system even gets caught on the lioness, enforcing that our dirty habits directly impact wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend for sustenance. By relating her experiences with humans, their machines, and their waste, the lioness enforces...