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HEIRS CONDITIONING

Heir Conditioning is a poem that criticize and comment on today's society. It compares the huge gap of the

earlier generations where they can survive and develop even without the modern technology. The poem also

compare how the relationship between people are getting wider because of technology. Even the title itself,

"Heir Conditioning" has the same pronunciation with "Air Conditioning" which shows two different things thatis not related.

Summary

The poem talks about the differences on the ways of living of two different generations. The poet uses an interesting way of a question

and answer session between a grandchild and his/her grandparents. The child questions his/her grandparents on how they could live

without all the necessities they todays generation could not live without such as air cons, fans, faxes and telephones. The grandparents

replay one after another that even though the necessities were not yet invented to comfort them, they could live in comfort as their life

were free from pollution, stress, traffic jams, destruction of forests, streams and hills. They warn their child that there is a price to pay

when they do not fear God and appreciate nature. They have made money as their God and nature fears them because of the rapid

pace of development and the destruction of the beautiful environment.

Stanza 1

In the first stanza the author questions on how in the past people managed to survived without modern invention such as air

conditioning, hand phones and fax machines

Stanza 2

In the final stanza the author question on how future generations will live due to today's living standard. The author blames himself (his

generation) for all the polutions that occur today and the destruction of mother nature. The highest power today accordint to the author

is money and it controls everything (god like)

Theme

1. Technology Brings More Harm

It may seem that we are living in comfort with all the technology that keeps on improving, but we do not realize the harms that the

technology has brought us. The grandchild thinks that it is impossible for their grandparents to live in comfort with the help of

technology. The child does not realize that because of the technology itself, the world becomes hotter and that is the reason why some

technologies are created to blind humans with the fake comfort that the technologies bring them. For example, electric fans and air

cons. Technological advancements have other setbacks such us pollution, stress, traffic jams, and destruction of forests, rivers andhills.

2. Fear

The older generations were God-fearing people and respected His creation nature. However, todays generation does not fear God. On

the contrary the poet says that now nature fears you and money is your new God. This indicates that the younger generation has

become more materialistic. They do not care for nature but gives priority to riches and money rather than practicing good values such

as preserving Gods creation.

3. Importance of Preserving Nature

God created nature to preserve life. In stanza 2, the poet gives the consequences of not preserving nature -pollution, stress, traffic

jams, destruction of forest, streams and hills. Humans seem not to aware that the more pollution they make, the more they need to

preserve the nature. In paving the way for development, forest and hills have been destroyed and streams have been polluted. This has

destroyed the natural habitat of many species of animals and plants which help to retain balance in our ecosystem.