Letter to Charles Bukowski

Dear Charles,            After I read your poem Dinosauria, We so many thoughts were in my head of the world we live in today and if we will ever become the idea of the this or if we already have become it. You wrote this poem in the 1970s and it is an accurate representation of the modern world. Are you psychic? Or is it just a reasonable assumption based on occurences in 1970? Regardless of what it may be I think the outcome you described will eventually surface and that is the scary part. Through your poem we see everything that we happen to our world in the future. But the question is what is the future? How close is it? And most of all is it the END of the world? In your poem one thing that really struck me was when you said Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground. Dante's Inferno referencing to Hell. I thought that to be a strong line because your saying that the world will eventually come to be so bad that Hell, something that we think of as being a horrible place that most don't won't to go to, becomes something desirable, enjoyable and something to look forward to. And then you said the fingers reach for the throat the gun the knife the bomb..........the fingers reach for the bottle the pill the powder. In today's world so many people look to violence and abuse to solve and cope with the problems. And in your poem when this is occuring all these realistic events of wanting to kill and reference to wanting to take drugs also occur. Lastly I think a strong part to your poem is that you continue to repeat "this" or born into "this", which for me adds to the intensity of the poem in the fact that it shows readers that "this" is serious and cannot be taken lightly. Your prediction or assumption of what the world will become is accurate because of the actions of human beings. The way we are headed in our world today with people having the mindset that the world can fix itself or that eventually it all will not pile up is the wrong mindset because it will and I think that everything you described in  your poem can happen and is possible. The only way it can be fixed is with the help of the entire human population, which is highly unlikely, starting now before it is too late or else they won't be another chapter. THIS will be the end.

Father and Son

Currently we are reading The Road, a post- apocalyptic story describing a son and father's journey through the disastrous world. Their relationship is one that is not typical of a father and son relationship, because in modern day most fathers are not as gentle, and compassionate as the one in the story. That is the role of the mother supposedly. They believe in tough love and making their sons men . But in the Road the father knows that the child won't be able to live a normal life or for that fact know what a normal life is. The father tries as best as he can to comfort the child and he begans to show motherly like  qualities.