I am going to use the Alice Walker essay. The major theme in this piece is that every living thing has feelings. These feelings can be sad, hurt, angury, or happy. The piece went on to talk aboout how we are hurting the trees and how the snake was scard to venture from the garden, because that has always been its home. A minor theme is that we are not indivdualy judged. For example, when people think snakes are dangurous they asoom they all are. Instead we should judge them as individuals. Towards the end it went on to talk about how as one person we can not change the oppion of others about humans without all humans changing their ways.