Michael sroda
Erika Hendrap
EN 110 1A
2/6/2012
A Walk on the Wild side The author starts off the essay about when she grew up in Southern Ontario and how it use to be when she was younger. The descriptive language she use to put everything into great detail makes you feel like you are actually there. “The trees were scattered to provide shade for the cattle and the river provided a drinking source”. Then she changes the mood of the essay to a dramatic feeling like everything there has changed for the worse. “The river was not poisonously polluted but often chocked from the algae and water plants.” She says how she wouldn’t even think about going swimming in the river. It seems like the author misses the house she grew up in when she was little. The story is directed towards older adults and bringing back their childhood memories and how bad it is not to be a child anymore. The reason I could tell who it is directed to is because that’s the only people that could understand what she’s actually feeling. She sadly talks about how the fields were ruined, elm trees she loved fell down, and that the town also built anther highway ruining the scenery. It shows me that enjoy the time as a child you have now because you will never be able to return to it. Another thing that had her chocked up was the private property signs. She loved walking through the woods freely not worrying about getting yelled at or arrested. The essay ends talking about how to try to preserve the wildlife. The essay a walk on the wild side was a very good written piece. I liked the descriptiveness of how southern Ontario use to be and now how it is. One major point that the author is trying to get across is that enjoy life as a child because you’ll never be able to return back to the good old days. When she was talking about how everything was changed from when she was little it made me depressed because I could relate to it by todays use of technology. It’s sad how much of the woods is getting knocked down to build new corporations. I think we should try to preserve some of the wildlife. I understand that obviously we need to knock some woods down but I feel were taking it too far. I love walking the woods very much because of the scenery and how beautiful it is. I have mixed feelings about the private property signs because in a sense I wouldn’t really like people walking on my land because people tend to vandalize and raise hell. If kids weren’t some destructive and wouldn’t mess anything around most likely it wouldn’t bother me. It must be sad looking at where you use to live and not being the way you visualized it in your head the way it use to be when you were younger. I could look back at parts of my childhood that I miss and that have changed and will never be the same as it use to be. The author has a good sense of descriptive details that puts a sad feeling to it. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to use the sense of details she used. The essay showed how everything use to be so wildlife and a country style of living and now how everything is becoming modern with the new improvements of technology. The piece shows how time doesn’t stand still and you cannot turn clocks back.
Overall the essay was a very good written piece that could make me feel a sense of change coming. The author defiantly misses the way everything use to be and shows how change in the future is always coming