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Summary Of High Tide In Tucson By Barbara Kingsolver

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In the essay “High Tide in Tucson” by Barbara Kingsolver depicts the main point of the essay as Human Nature and evolution. During the essay Barbara has a hermit crab show up at her home. We see the hermit crab as a metaphor. The hermit crab is characterized as a person or animal, depending on the reader, who got into an unnatural state. Later we see Barbara leave her home to travel to a new state, there she live in a new place where she had to adapt to her new environment. We can see a link between the crab and Barbara and the mysterious behavior of animals and humans. Throughout all of this the crab and the author had to adapt and evolve into a different animal to survive. There was tough times where the shell of the crab and Barbara’s

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