Giving an animal human characteristics is known as anthropomorphism. How can you objectively judge an animal's thoughts and feelings? Human beings place themselves above animals and anything inhuman. Giving an animal a voice means asserting an authority over it. How can you pretend to know what an animal thinks? There are several chapters in Glotfelty's The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, which comments on several topics in ecology; chapter 8 of the book talks about literature and ecology. The text notes that there is a big difference between how “the human world and the natural world support life and communities” (108). They both have different ways of surviving. Human beings interact with nature on a daily basis, so it can be said that the “human world” could not exist without the “natural world”, but this is not a mutual