Who Is Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods

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Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods will make you laugh and think. It gives an interesting perspective on life when Bryson and his friend Stephen Katz, head out for a hike on the 2,200 mile long Appalachian trail. He takes you through all of his experiences, ranging from dealing with over-talkative hikers to loud noises and glowing eyes in the night. It gives you a chance to realize how hectic our lives are and that if we just take a step back life can really be quite simple. Bryson and Katz’s journey down the trail will open your eyes to many new things you never would have thought about and give you an urge to find a trail near you (maybe not a 2,200 mile trail though).
I found that one of Bill Bryson's strengths as a writer was his ability …show more content…

A great example is shown here, “When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.” His use of these literary devices not only adds texture to the book but also lets you compare things you can easily picture to something you may have never actually seen before. Almost every good writer will stun you with their ability to come up with unique literary devices, and Bill Bryson is no …show more content…

One of which was to enjoy the simple things in life. While Bryson and Katz were walking down the trail you could tell they really began to respect and enjoy the simple things in life like having a bed to sleep in, or a warm meal. It helps show us that we don’t need extravagant things to be happy, we would be just fine with the bare essentials. At one point throughout the book, Bryson points out just how ridiculous some of us have got, “I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn’t walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. ‘Because I have a program for the treadmill,’ she explained. ‘It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.’ It hadn’t occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this

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