Diary Of An Interesting Year By Heidi Cullen Summary

For most people, climate change is just a myth or something they believe will not happen in their lifetime. News programs and informative television shows tend to stay away from this topic because to them it is not important. When it is discussed people are presented with a lot of facts, but are not shown the effects from it that affect their everyday life. In the article “Personal Stories About Global Warming Changes Minds,” the author Heidi Cullen argues that to engage and teach people about climate change one must give the readers/viewers personal stories that they can connect with emotionally. The short story “Diary of an Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson, applies similar thoughts that Cullen had when writing her story. Simpson writes about a young couple in a future where the world is falling to ruins due to the impacts of climate change. It allows readers to connect with the narrator on an emotional level because the story is written as a diary and the narrator leaves nothing to the imagination with what happens to her throughout the story. Though the story is fictional, it depicts events that would not be too far out of reach to happen. “Diary of an Interesting Year” illustrates
The short story connected on an emotional level with readers by being written as a diary and not holding back on the awful thoughts and events that happened to the narrator. Even though climate change was not in the forefront of the story, the after effects the character’s experience brought the topic to life for the readers because it related back to events that have happened or are happening now making the story that more real. It made readers really connect and question themselves when they imagined being in this situation. Per Cullen’s views in her article, this story would be a very effective Cli-Fi that will hopefully bring positive change to the