Rhetorical Analysis Of Richard Louv's Last Child In The Woods

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, writes about the separation between nature and people now, to nature and people in the past in his passages. He uses many rhetorical strategies, including logos and illustration, to analyze the arguments against these differences. The passages in this writing challenges these differences, and outlines what the future may hold, but also presents so many natural beauties that we choose to ignore. Louv amplifies the illustrations between how people used to ride in cars in the past, and how they find entertainment now. He asks, “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” Louv writes about how children are now more interested in watching movies or playing video games in the car, rather than looking at nature and

viewing the different aspects of it. This question challenges you to think about how our world has changed so much, and how we construct an idea that distraction from the natural world is what the young generations are all about. The author writes about, how, for a century children and people around the world watched the “telephone poles tick by. We saw the birds on the wires and combines in the fields. We were fascinated with roadkill, and we counted cows and horses and coyotes and shaving-cream signs.” These examples illustrate how the world used to be before television screens were implanted into vehicles, and vivid video games were designed for children’s entertainment, rather than enjoying natures wonderful creations. Children now are more focused on the material world, rather than the natural beauty right outside their windows. Louv evaluates the use of logos to reveal the logistics behind the difference and separation between nature and people.

He writes that “researchers at the University of New York at Buffalo are experimenting with a genetic technology through which they can choose the colors that appear on butterfly wings.” This passage outlines the beginnings of new generations of technology and how it is improving every day. These researchers are tampering with how things are naturally created, by changing the genetics of a beautiful creature. Louv narrates that “the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of “true” nature.” This argues that, while you may be able to change how nature looks now from how it used to look, true nature is always going to be what people see as “real.” No synthetic creature is going to be as natural and beautiful as something nature created itself. Throughout this research, Louv has analyzed the differences and separation between nature and people. From beginning to end, the world continues to change, whether we like to believe it or not. Technology is improving every second of every day, and we cannot change that, but we can improve how nature looks

now. Louv explains how is important that we, as people on earth, try to bring back the natural beauty of the world, and stop trying to change nature. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, evaluates the logos and illustrations between people and nature now, and people and nature in the past. Children used to have so much down time to play outside and explore nature, but now, kids barely look up from their technology enough to see the beautiful world in front of them.