power of nature/human power

• Tissue explores how human power is "not meant to last" through a variety of metaphors.
• By comparing human power to Tissue, Dharker creates an effect of temporariness.

  • Dharker thus criticises human attempts to hold onto power, showing us how no matter how grandiose humanity's "capitals and monoliths" are, they are not meant to last.
• Dharker does illustrate to us that Tissue, thus human power, has the ability to change the world.

  • She tells us that they have the power to "fly our lives like paper kites" illustrating how despite the insignificant and frail nature of paper, it is still able to impact human lives.
• Dharker also illustrates the power of paper via her exploration of money calling it "paper slips" and telling us how it controls our lives as well as through her exploration of books.
• She tells us paper has the ability to record "who was born to whom" showing us that paper has the power to encapsulate and record something as complex as human lives.
• Dharker uses the things that humans put on paper to illustrate what humans are passionate about and as a result, what causes divides.

  • She mentions things like "borders", "paper slips", "maps", "Koran", showing how the things that humans use to illustrate power are the same things that lead to disunity and division.