摘要:The World War II has been a great predicament for the United States of America in the 20th Century. Starhawk’s select novels of this study, Walking to Mercury (1997) and The Fifth sacred Thing (1993) are concerned significantly with the World War II and the corresponding environmental impact. This circumstance forms the background setting of the select novels of Starhawk. She illustrates the authoritative elements, political and economic condition throughout these novels. This study focuses on the chronological projections of War elements as they seem to be the fundamental cause for the environmental havoc. After the Second World War the City seems to have been destroyed with the political powers and the environment also demolishes it slowly. This study highlights the development of war and the invasion into the country. The protagonist of the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) struggles to defeat the army with the fifth sacred element of the cosmos.
关键词:Starhawk;The Fifth Sacred Thing;Walking to Mercury;City of Refuge;Environmental havoc;chronological projections of war