Changing the ecosystem

a food chain is a series of links between plants and animals. it starts with a plant. the next part of the link is a plant eater. when the prairie plants started to die or be replaced with houses and roads, the animals that depended on them lost their food source. so while the farmers produced more food for people, they broke the animals’ food chain and the animals died or had to move. this was a great mistake. we are paying for that mistake today. and, unfortunately, people still keep making that mistake. they keep breaking the food chains.

a food chain is part of a bigger system called a food web. that web links the living things in an ecosystem. the herbivores in that system depend on the plants. if the plants are removed, the herbivores cannot survive. then the carnivores, the animals that eat other animals, lose their food, too. remove just one kind of plant from an environment and you disrupt the food web. plow up the land and you destroy the whole system. the problem was there were more and more people and less and less natural habitats.

how would the message of this text change if it was written in a problem/solution structure?
a) the text would provide a timeline of the issues leading to the changing ecosystem.
b) the text would list the causes of the changing ecosystem and effects of the change.
c) the text would compare and contrast parts of the ecosystem to show how it is changing.
d) the text would provide the reader with a solution(s) to the issue of breaking the food chain.

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives