Evil in Monkey Wrench Gang and Ceremony

             Ceremony and the Monkey Wrench Gang are both identical on one count
             and that is both the books set on to embark on a mission of preservation,
             one towards the preservation of the rituals and the other towards the
             preservation of the nature. Nevertheless, the apparatus both the book
             employs ponders us towards the deployment of evil, by means of witchery in
             Ceremony and the destructive machine in the Monkey Wrench Gang.
            
             Brinkley and Abbey in The Monkey Wrench Gang put forth the idea of
             Bonnie and Clyde from ecological perspective. The book is about the four
             main characters: Sarvis, Hayduke, Smith and Ms. Abbzug. All these main
             characters come together in the book to decide on the matter that it is
             rather imperative for the survival of the environment to make efforts to
             put a stop to the earth's degradation and environmental erosion. The book
             is expressive and emotional for those who think that the earth needs
             reformation and that we have done too much to destroy it and the natural
             resources that it provides us. Specifically, at one pint in the book, the
             authors describe this devastation as follows:
            
             As they "stared down. A few dead fish floated belly up on the oily
             surface among the orange peels and picnic plates. One waterlogged tree, a
             hazard to navigation hung suspended in the static medium. The smell of
             decay, faint but unmistakable, rose four hundred and fifty feet to their
             nostrils. Somewhere below that still surface, down where the cloudy silt
             was settling out, the drowned cottonwoods must yet be standing their dead
             branches thick with algae, their ancient knees laden with mud. Somewhere
             under the heavy burden of water going nowhere, under the silence, the old
             rocks of the river channel waited for the promised resurrection" (Brinkley
             and Abbey, 112).
            
             To counter these destruction's of nature, the group avenges on burning
             the billboard. This act was indeed the sign that the billb...

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