I M With The Bears: Book Analysis
In the wake of climate change and ecological deterioration, many science fiction with a dominant theme of climate change has been emerging in literature, and consequently in literary studies. These emergences have given way to a whole new genre of literature, cli-fi as in climate change fiction, which pursues the issue of climate change and global warning as a philosophical or existentialist problem within a fictional situation. Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Sacred Space” and Lydia Millet’s “Zoogoing” belong to this category. These two short stories are from a book called “I’m With the Bears : Short Stories from a Damaged Planet”, which I found out to be a book consisting of 10 eco-related stories that mainly promote and inform the readers of the idea of fighting against global warming.
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In a very similar manner, the author coerces the readers to feel the unmitigated grief he feels for the loss of these ecological systems, for these natural beauty, “…and yet here it was, dead. Desolation filled him. It pressed inside him, slowing him down, buffeting him from inside, making him stumble. Not the Sierra.” Therefore, as we can see, by sympathizing with the fictional characters of these stories, perhaps even the author himself, we feel the intimate relationship between human beings and nature and learn to recognize nature as an existing life who needs saving, instead of inanimate
In a very similar manner, the author coerces the readers to feel the unmitigated grief he feels for the loss of these ecological systems, for these natural beauty, “…and yet here it was, dead. Desolation filled him. It pressed inside him, slowing him down, buffeting him from inside, making him stumble. Not the Sierra.” Therefore, as we can see, by sympathizing with the fictional characters of these stories, perhaps even the author himself, we feel the intimate relationship between human beings and nature and learn to recognize nature as an existing life who needs saving, instead of inanimate