Varsity Literature

Environmental Literature Overview

100

Two of the most renowned Transcendentalists.

Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson

200

Carson’s environmental science book Silent Spring discussed this dangerous chemical.

DDT

300

The term Cli-Fi was coined in 2008, by this journalist and climate activist.

Dan Bloom

400

Wordsworth's poem detailing Britain's failed harvest and the resulting rural poor hardship.

"The Ruined Cottage"

500

A coalition of local residents in North Carolina that formed during the environmental justice movement in the 1980s.

Northeast Community Action Group (NECAG)

Solar Storms

100

The woman who Angel inherits her gift of plant dreaming from.

Ek

200

The reason for the almond smell Loretta Wing always had.

Cyanide

300

Angel Iron carries a fake baby picture from this supermarket.

Woolworth

400

The historical inspiration of the events of the book Solar Storms.

James Bay Project

500

Historically, the land depicted in Solar Storms belonged to these individuals.

Cree and Anishinaabe peoples (The Fat Eaters/The Beautiful People are a fictitious group)

Short Selections

100

In "Freeway 280" these two languages are used.

English & Spanish

200

In "The Blue", the blue butterfly is named after this man.

Claude I. Smith

300

In "Webcam the World" the word save has these two meanings.

Save the world

Save documents and files

400

The specific number of ways to pray as outlined by "In Different Ways to Pray".

Six: one for each stanza

500

Wordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us" is an example of these specific sonnets.

English, Petrarchan, & Shakespearean 

Short Selections

100

In "Evergreen", the author describes this season and setting.

Winter & woods

200

In "The air smelled dirty", the furnace is compared to this monster.

Godzilla

300

The proper term for the "worms" in "The Machine Stops."

The Mending Apparatus

400

In "Once More to the Lake" the author utilizes this term in reference to the sanctity of the lake.

Cathedral

500

The title of "Earthrise" references this famous event.

The 1968 Apollo 8 mission photographing Earth from space.

Random ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-

100

"The Toxic Donut" references this short story.

Shirley Jackson’s 1948 “The Lottery”

200

In "Epiphany in the Beans" the Indigenous creation story of Skywoman details the creation of plants by her doing this.

Skywoman burying her daughter

300

The name of Tulik's grandfather and subsequently what he calls Aurora.

Totsohi or Storm

400

In Solar Storms, this is the name of the company building the hydroelectric dam.

BEEVCO

500

In "Space Leek" this chemical can be found in leeks to create a synthetic polymer.

Allyl methyl sulfide