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Last Child In The Woods Essay

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Every summer as a young child my family drove to Florida. I, unable to sleep in the back of moving car would spend hours on end staring out the car window admiring the moving scenerary. I would stick my head out of the window as the crisp air would hit my face as I watched the trees changes from pine trees to palm trees, counting the cows on farms and simply enjoying the sceneary like a movie. These will be memories I will treasurer forever. But now because of the high tech technology in the society in which we live in today children will never be able to experience the same joys I had while viewing the moving sceneary in the back seat of my mothers mini van. In Richard Louv’s informative article, Last Child in the Woods he explains the deliama …show more content…

To start off, Louv instantly begins to demonstrate his argument by using strong emotional appeal to have the audiance to realize the depth of the situation we are in. For example, Louv begins with giving an example of how not only are we not in touch with nature but we now no longer respect it. He quotes how in the State University of New York at Buffalo they are taking innocent butterflies from their homes and placing advertisements on them. Additionally they also place adverstisments on sandy beaches and in public and private parks. When asked writer Matt Richtel says “its time for nature to carry its weight” (line 9) When Louv wrote this he attends the audicance to feel horrified and out-raged by Richtel’s remark. That nature is here for us to admire and value not for us to place an advertisment for cell phones or a major cooperation and it also furthers he’s point that we no longer respect the world we live in. Also, an emotional appeal that Louv uses to further explain his point is by using imagery to have adults fantacise about their childhoods. “We saw birds on the wires and combines in the fields. We were fascinatres with roadkill, and we counted cows are horses… We held our little plastic cars against the glass and pretended that the, too, were

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