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4. difficulty in telling story
It is difficult to tell stories without the use of names. The narrator of Bone from a Dry Sea "must use names to tell their story"(18). Names must be use because otherwise people would be referred to as "hominid one" or "human three"
5. Change in environment
"Then the sea had risen and those ancestors had been cut off on a longshore island"(19). The sea had risen, causing the risen water level to create an island where the hominids lived. changes in hydrological systems causes large-scale and global environmental hazards
6. instinct versus imagination
In the environment, many things occur as an instinct. Birds migrate as children without knowing why. In Bone from a Dry Sea, Li "wanted to see what the spider would do" rather than kill it like her instincts tell her to do(21). humans are also born with the instinct to breathe and eat without having to be taught.
Nicolas Baumann Sources:
Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
http://www.who.int/globalchange/environment/en/ World Health Organization
http://blogs.bu.edu/bioaerial2012/2012/10/09/nature-vs-nurture-how-do-baby-birds-learn-how-to-fly/
