Indledning
People of the world are becoming more and more concerned about sustainability and the destruction of the world's natural resources.
In the short story “The Larder” by Morris Lurie a group of tourists on an unnamed island collects shells with living animals inside from a reef to take home with them when they leave the island.
However, they collect far more than they actually intend to take home and leave the rest to be thrown away before the next group of tourists arrive.
By choosing the title “the larder” the author ironizes about how humans abuse natural resources because we think they are infinite and ours to do with as we please.
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Uddrag
“‘Naah,’ he said. ‘They don’t feel a thing. Larder of the earth, the sea. Man’s richest feeding ground. There’s plenty more where this came from, and getting this fella out won’t make any difference at all.”
In this paragraph, he has one of the characters explain why he has chosen the title “The Larder” since the character as stated above simply seem to think that he can use as many resources as he wants because the see is mankind's larder.
The author wants to point out that not only do we humans, represented by the tourists in the story not care about our overuse of natural resources we actually even seem to celebrate it as a victory over nature itself and a testament to our own greatness:
“The people who had hung them up were very happy at lunch. ‘There goes another!’ they called out, each time one fell to the ground.
There was a lot of laughing and joking. They made bets to see which ones would drop first. The fishing line idea, they agreed, had been a stroke of genius.”
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