March 20th 2013, there was a power cut in Japan’s
tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. When reading this article it discussed how the
cause of this was a six inch rat, which was found dead by the switchboard. This
caused the power to be out in the plant for three days. I related this article
to a poem by Seamus Heaney, called “The Early Purges.” This poem starts out with
talking about kittens drowning and how it was needed because they were “pests.”
As the poem continues it talks about rat traps and shooting crows. In the end
the poem ends with, “But on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.”
When
reading about the article about the rat that caused problems for the
tsunami-crippled nuclear plant, it related to this poem because of the pests. In
the beginning of the poem the boy was scared by seeing Dan drown the kittens.
Just like in the article, they were scared at first because they didn’t realize
why the power had gone out. Towards the middle of the poem the boy starts to
understand why this is happening. He shows this by saying, “I just shrug, ‘Bloody
pups’. It makes sense”. The article then talks about how they were without
power but finally regained it back within two days. This shows that they
regained their power just as the boy finally understood the need to trap or
kill certain animals. Then at the end the boy realizes that living on a farm,
certain animals are pests and that in order to run a good farm pests need to be
kept down. In the article it shows that pests need to be kept down because they
can cause many problems like cutting off power.
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