Called out talks about how flowers adapt to harsh environments. In the short story “my life as a bat” by Margaret Atwood talks about how bats have to adapt to people trying to kill them with tennis rackets and dealing with the sun. I have adapted to high school and California’s crazy weather. In the science essay “called out” by Barbara Kingsolver, flowers have adapted by growing faster and keeping their seed in the soil longer and also by producing seeds with different latency periods. For example, the author shows how the flowers adapt by stating “once the plants has rushed through growth and flowering, its seeds wait in the soil and not just until the next time conditions permit germation, but often longer” (Kingslover53). This shows that