Charles Siebert, author of “An Elephant Crackup”, talks about how the Sheldrick trust has successfully rehabilitated over 60 elephants to date. During this time, a new subspecies has developed: human allograndmothers. This means that elephants have become so used to interacting with humans that they often bring their offspring back to the sanctuary to experience this “trans-species psyche”. Siebert uses the word psyche here to show how humans and elephants share similar mind traits. All of this has led to “Now humans can participate actively in the healing of both themselves and non-human animals. The trust and the sanctuary are the beginning of a mutually benefiting interspecies culture” (Siebert 538). Siebert uses interspecies to show how two species have benefited from eachother.
I think you summarized the close reading, instead of analyzing it.
ReplyDeleteI Agree with Matas. You need to put more of your own thought into what you believed the writer was trying to say, rather then describing what he said. But good start, and you picked out good key terms to work with.
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