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I like how you said, "Who would need such a title?" The same thought came to my mind when I read it. Both the title and the last line talk about a future in which things are not the way we know them to be right now. Pineda says, "If l could tell you-if you could hear, in the age that comes after-what it was like to live in this Fourth Sun. In its perfection there was everything" (21). The main story is familiar: it is the way the earth is now. It hits the reader emotionally because it is familiar and universally beautiful.

Because Pineda chose to show the reader that the future may not be the same (future humans may not have the beauty and light we have now) in a way that is not preachy, it's actually more effective,
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