Analysis Of Jenny Allen's Essay 'The Trouble With Nature'

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In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to show the difficulties faced when trying to go into nature. The essay is trying to portray that once out in nature you can't get away from it, youv'e already become a part of nature. In the first paragraph it explains how once people try to come into nature, nature comes right there way to make a statement like you really want to be here? "Nature comes right inside, as if to prove some kind of point" (Allen 1). In the ending of the essay it says how many people will try to hide and get away from the different animals or insects that are apart of nature only to find more where you are hiding, showing that you can never truly get from nature. "People take themselves upstairs to their bedroom, lie down, and stare at the ceiling, hoping that if they focus all their thoughts and energy on the racoons going away, maybe, maybe this will …show more content…

In the forth paragraph it gives a description of bats that appeals to your sight and your touch. "Its little body is covered in fur, which many people find distressing, this is a creature that flies, and is unsettling for a flying thing to have fur" (Allen 4). The essay continues to go into detail about the bat describing its ears which appeals to ones sight. "Shaped just like a chihuahua's ears, only in miniature: tiny, perfect doggie ears, which do not belong on a flying thing"(Allen 5). The essay goes into extremedetail about the creatures found in nature and why they are not a benefit to you, when your considering living out in the woods. A final example that can be used is the description of birds coming into your home and not being able to get out causing noise and disress this appeals to your listening and sight. "Unlike bats, small birds that fly indoors by accident hardly ever find their way back outside on their own; they just keep wacking into plate - glass windows"(Allen

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