No Renewal By Dougl Summary

I believe that the theme of no renewal is that human progress is bad and that we often don’t think about the consequences of our actions this is clearly stated in the story because the main character discusses how the world went down hill and how humans are pushing the world's sustainability to the limit. He also talks about how humans stop farming and now most of the world relies on synthetical food while he is one of the only people who still grow their crops. In he calls the area around him a wasteland because all the clay was mined out and the only things left around him are empty mining pits and swarming apartments. At the end of the story he also gets a knock at the door after he reads his birth certificate and finds that he is supposed …show more content…
Introduction: the introduction introduces the main character douglas bent jr and describes him as an old man without any living relatives living in one of the last farms in nova scotia. And describes the setting around him such as his old house where he is making tea during his birthday with no one to celebrate. He describes the land around him as barren and striped of all its resources and packed with people living close together in tiny apartments Initiating conflict: the conflict becomes initiated when douglas bent starts discussing his life during the past and how he wishes it was still the same in the present this initiates the conflict where douglas explains why he lives in isolation and starts wondering about how old he …show more content…
It evokes a sad mood because it makes the reader wonder about what damage humans have already caused to the environment and infer what will happen to the environment in the future if we keep using fossil fuels and not creating sustainable ways of life. The author was very successful in using plot and setting to demonstrate his theme but he wasn’t as successful in using conflict because it was hard to understand what the conflict itself was because at the start it went from a man vs self conflict to a man vs society conflict which makes it hard to use the conflict to establish the theme. But the author did a good job with the setting because it demonstrates the drastic change from the past to the present showing us the ruined wasteland in the present and making us think about what could have caused it to become like that meanwhile the plot explains how the