The Earth is a vast and amazing place but is also cruel and dark. Filled with wonders and staggering displays of nature it is the life that inhabits it to make it the most unique planet in the galaxy. But, with such an amazing planet comes the debt we pay to live here. Natural disasters ravage the world as a whole and disrupt the lives of many. Tornadoes in Midwest, Hurricanes in the Pacific and Tsunamis that hit islands such as Japan. Writer Leonard Pitts days after the hurricane that struck Haiti wrote a compelling message displaying the way the human race pushes through, even in the darkest times. The Earth may be Cruel, but the Human Race always finds a way to push on.

First, Leonard Pitts talks about the way most of the natural disasters always happen to the people that have little to begin with. Pitts describes Haiti as being poor and with an unstable government, herd to stay on its feet. These certain disasters are human related. With little government it is hard to setup even the slightest way of knowing incoming disasters headed their way. For the Haitians …show more content…
Pitts says in his writing of The Earth is Cruel, "Surely, the rest of us watching from afar, experiencing tragedy and devastation from the comfort of desk chairs and living room couches, are tempted to believe the same thing." While this small nation get ripped and shattered to pieces we just sit and watch the horror unravel unable to comprehend the terror in front of