...exceeded our humanity.” Richard Louv, writer of Last Child in the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing “the variety or architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond...
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...In the passage Last Child in the Woods, the author, Richard Louv implements rhetorical strategies and literary devices to convey that people are becoming more and more distant from nature through advancements in technology over time. Richard Louv starts the passage off by introducing the idea of genetic technology through which scientists can choose the color that appear on butterfly wings. Louv goes on to exaggerate this idea by comparing this discovery to the idea of how companies advertise their brand in nature, by “stamp[ing] their messages into the wet sands of public beaches” (Louv 9-10). This sponsorship in nature is impeding one from fully experiencing nature. Through the idea of manipulating nature, Louv is appealing to pathos as...
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...Richard Louv’s Passage of Last Child in The Woods make us all stop and think about technology and how it’s really affecting the young generation. People say that if all these kids are using technology more than they should, they won’t go out and respect nature. Louv believes that the relationship between nature and humans is dwindling, because of the rise of technology. Louv doesn’t think that it will be beneficial to the young generation because they will stay inside instead of going out and exploring nature. Louv tries to show us that there are many remarkable things that you can view out in the world that’s not on a video game. Louv conveys his worries about the disconnect between people and nature by bringing in a personal experience of...
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...out, we learned how to bend nature to our advantage and eventually sever ourselves from it. In nearly all modern societies, we have created a gap between people and nature, a truth that is superbly echoed by Richard Louv. Louv uses rhetorical strategies such as using a narrative, imagery, and fictional and relatable stories. Louv states “our experience of natural landscape ‘often occurs within an automobile...
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...Consequences of Technology The article “Last Child in the Woods” claims that over time, people are becoming less appreciative towards nature due to technology. The author, Richard Louv, supports his argument by establishing his credibility, making people think with a rhetorical question, providing nostalgia of the past, and using imagery. Louv attempts to show the audience that, technology is ruining the natural nature. To begin the article, Louv establishes his credibility by providing research and data to support his argument. He adds to his claim that this generation has a decline in the appreciation of nature and supplements it with research. In Louv’s essay, he provides examples of how nature can be ruined by nature. He supplies data from “researchers at the State University of New York” and explains how they are “experimenting with a genetic technology through which they can choose the colors that appear on butterfly wings” (1-4). Louv shows...
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...The aspects of nature have always been used by man for their benefits, but in recent years there have been signs that the connection between people and nature is waning. Richard Louv argues this case in the passage Last Child in the Woods by using the devices imagery, anaphora, and rhetorical questioning to create a relationship with the reader. Louv uses the rhetorical questions in the passage to show how puzzled he is about the actions of others, like why people are such hypocrites for wanting “their children to watch less TV, yet continue[ing] to expand the opportunities for them to watch it” (43-45). His use of this device really enables the reader to know how he feels about the topic. He goes on to ask why “people no longer consider the...
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...In 2008, American author and journalist, Richard Louv wrote in his book, Last Child in the Woods, about the gap that has continuously been developing amongst people and nature as technology advances, overrunning humanity. Richard Louv expects that in the not so distant future, many of the younger generations will be so disconnected from nature that even looking outside a car window during a drive, would be quite bizarre. By utilizing testimonies that represent either the average technology-loving American or the modern transcendentalist, nostalgic imagery, and rhetorical questions he develops a well thought out argument about the severance between people and nature. After Louv learns about the advance science has reached, where altering the very color of a butterflies wings is now a luxury, that the science of synthetic nature has let Americans’ achieve, he comes across Matt Richtel, an American writer and journalist for the New York Times, who believes Americans have developed a new advertising medium, a medium that could captivate people’s attention much faster than any other traditional method, such as billboards and street benches. And although Richtel is correct to a certain extent, by implying he is right about how “moving ads out of the virtual world and into the real one” is something that is currently taking place, however, Louv suggests that such a form of advertisement is not even worth looking at. Louv quoting Richtel’s ridiculous statement where he claims “It’s time...
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