Human Relationship with Nature: The Zookeeper’s Wife Inspiration
Argument
Humans and nature are two inseparable things in the world. They are invaluable to one another as seen from the benefits they derive from their interaction. However, the manner in which nature has been treated by a man in the story "The Zookeeper's Wife" depicts a man as both, inhumane to nature, at some times and human, at some point in life. The man is the leading destroyer of nature (Ackerman 21-22). People have the power to protect nature but this capacity and knowledge are founded on the inherent decisions that direct them to their objectives. In The Zookeeper’s Wife story, man has done what is unconditionally and adversely inhuman to animals. Animals are to be treated just as having similar intensity to life as human beings if not with similarity with human beings.
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