10:10 by Jeanette Winterson

10:10 by Jeanette Winterson was not at all what I originally expected. This piece was about the environment and worrying about the polar bears and how their homes are being destroyed. I loved that Winterson used Frankenstein as a reference to compare to polar bears. They are monsters slowly losing their homes. Once it is gone, we can never get it back. There was an almost pleading tone to this piece; Winterson seemed to be begging her audience to help the cause or at least share in her feelings. I did not feel that this piece was effective in raising awareness for the issue of environmental depletion but served as more of a creative work, which may have been her intention. I especially loved the line, "You wanted to see the sun rise after a night that lasted as long as all the things you have done wrong. You wanted to see the sun come up and no one to be near you." (Winterson). This line seems to be less specific to the main idea of the piece and more of a global theme that many people can relate to, which makes the piece effective in reaching a broad audience, although it takes a long time to get to any broader lines as many of the lines of this piece are very specific to polar bears and the environment, which may turn some readers off.