These two stories and one pictorial message all convey the same story. The combination of the three create a strong effect in showing what could come in the future and what already has. I enjoyed Sanders piece very much, partially the way he told of his town before and after. On page 787 he states, "You may love the place if you flourished there, or hate the place if you suffered there. But love it or hate it, you cannot shake free. Even if you move to the antipodes, even if you become intimate with new landscapes, you still bear the impression of that first ground". The way Sanders describes the feeling that overcomes one when remembering their first landscape is vivid and in reach. He does such an exquisite job telling his story and landscape that it's hard not to feel bad for what has happened. Then I think about the devastation of his land and how similar it is to many people in the world.
Dick uses a science fiction approach to send a message of what we are doing to the animals of our world. Will robots really take place of vivacious, blood pumping animals that inhabit our world today? No one knows, but his imagination and creative spin puts a worry on that topic. The owl that Rachael is in possession of is living and not controlled by batteries. The last line on page 453 goes on to say, "Its chest rose conspicuously and fell, as if the owl, in its hypnagogic state, had sighed". The word "sighed" alone creates a message saying how the hell did the world come to this. The owl shows it all in that last line.
I really like what you had to say about the stories, but you never talked about the comic strip in detail. I liked what you had to say about the "sigh". I didn't think about it like that when reading the story, but I think it fits with the overall message Dick is trying to get out to the world.
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