Paul Bogard The Value Of Darkness Analysis

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Paul Bogard, a passionate writer, convinces his audience with a strong argument on the importance of darkness to health and ecology. Light is everywhere, it is needed in times of darkness, we carry it around, we use it to wake up, we need it to see at night, Light is an important factor in everyday life. It is so important that we dictate the connotation for darkness, negatively, but in reality, darkness has special capabilities for healing, nature, and a primitive and natural Earth default. Introducing readers to his argument, Bogard begins with an anecdote on his childhood, discussing the value of darkness, “At my family’s cabin on a Minnesota lake, I knew woods so dark that my hands disappeared before my eyes. I knew night skies in which

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