Ramses’s impression of Nina
Upon first exploring the Myth and meeting people who are a part of it Ramses is most fascinated by Nina. She wasn’t afraid to abandon the education she didn’t like in pursuit of what she wanted. Nina explains to Ramses the importance of the most seemingly unimportant plants to their cause of building a new ecosystem. Ramses concludes that Nina has a much better understanding of what they are doing for the future than the rest of them.
Irony of The Myth
The way that the Myth got its name by accident is ironic and much less mysterious than the name suggests. It was derived from the acronym MTHS, which stands for the “magnificent temple of the human spirit”. The irony of the myth also lies in its purpose of making an effort against climate change, which in the story as well as today’s reality is often overlooked.
Irony of the State’s response
Trying to explain to Foote, who is a state worker, the reasoning of their effort, which is to save Miami, Ramses and others from the Myth get a response that they can’t say that, because it means that the government is then liable to address the impending menace, which is then bad for the business. It represents a complete and foolish disregard for humanity by the government and putting money above everything else.
Something lost, something found
At the end of the story, Ramses and Jefferson realize that they lost the monument of the Myth, which after the disaster became filled with human life being a part of the new ecosystem. But, with their plans of the New Wetland gaining global attention they realize that they found something much more instead, a movement.
