I do not believe that Sarah Gilbert’s piece “Trapped” could make a large scale social change.  But, in essence of what we have been learning with Anne Hallward about “Voluntary Vulnerability” maybe it could make change on a smaller scale.  I believe that her writing could show people the changes she is trying to make and the reactions that everyday people have to these unorthodox changes.  Sarah telling her story of change and how she is trying to improve herself and the planet could lead to other people around her telling about the same type of story.  Everyone could all share their story about how they gave up their cars because it go too expensive and they could no longer afford it.  Tell their story of how they go to the local supermarket and look at the sheen of plastic around the packaged cookies and say people mined and died for that.  Tell their story about how their whole family is changed completely by these minuscule changes.  But, with all of these stories that people share, there are going to be people out there that want to try this but it is impractical.  Suppose you are riding your bike to work, average commute is 26 minutes in the US (prb.org), it starts raining.  What are you going to do? You are over half way there but still have about 8 minutes left; by the time you get there you will have become drenched.  Are you going to duck into the nearest store and call your supervisor/boss and say i will be in when it stops raining, I am stuck in a store.  This is why in all practicality I do not believe that Sarah Gilbert making these changes in her life could make change on a large scale.  In today’s United States we are too industrialized and it has become a necessity to own a car and to buy whatever is cheapest on the supermarket shelf no matter where it might have come from.