In the excerpt “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet” Margaret Atwood uses genre conventions in order to spark rhetorical effects throughout the whole piece.At first glance reading the title automatically made me feel the piece was going to be about a post-apocalyptic world which no longer was.The fact she doesn’t directly name the planet was very astute as I believe she decided to let us determine it.Some people would think she’s writing about a dead earth and this can convey a sense of guilt in the reader because humanity today is detrimental to the planet we inhabit.In the body of the text Atwood speaks of this “dead planet” using the structure from the book of genesis in the Holy Bible.I think the use of this structure is very ironic and shows the juxtaposition between the original book of genesis and her story.The book of genesis tells the story of the birth of the world and key aspects that helped create it while Atwood uses the structure to show what aspects of that world destroyed it.Money and religion go hand in hand in “Time capsule found on the dead planet” and eventually become the same thing.The creator of the time Capsule found in the story explains that humanity’s hunger to acquire money led to catastrophe and eventually blinded people from things that actually mattered.Living in a capitalist society where money drives everything made this very eerie to read and it did not seem too far fetched.I certainly believe the author tried to spark these emotions intentionally to promote ideas like a better tomorrow and positive change into the audience.The planet we live in today isn’t far from a dystopian one and this is something that might be inevitable.Humankind has truly reached a state of unconsciousness in very important issues that are shaping our lives and bringing uncertainty into the future. “Time capsule found on the dead planet” may be a fictional story but It tells the story of a world that we can make our own mirror.