What are we? Are we just a group of cells that work together? Are we just an accumulation of the experience that we have? This essay discuses these questions in a very interesting way. The author does a great job of comparing and contrasting different things to get the point across.
Though out the essay he author takes breaks in the essay to discuss the process of cellular reproduction and how life is created on the cellular leave. Also she talks abut the history of missiles and how they came about. This is a very interesting contrast between the two. One the one hand you have life, pure and innocent. On the other you have something that ends life. One is beyond our replication and the other is created by us. I think that this is a very interesting point. As she talks about different peoples lives and her own she shows that people tend to be violent. This is contrast though out the essay with the reproduction of the cell. The continual renewal and growth is beautifully contrasted with the constant creation of bigger and better killing machines.
As the author talks about two men that did horrible things, she does a great job of showing their humanity. She does that by weaving her own life with the lives of the men she talks about. She shows that their feelings are feelings that everyone has. This helps the reader feel that theses men are not evil, but just humans that where caught up in their circumstances. By doing this she does not excuse anything that they did. She doesn't in any way condone what was done, but she does help the reader see that they are human.
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