It is no secret that there is a difference between human and nature. Many people in the world do not want their children to watch the outside world, but instead they want them to be fixated on the world that isn't really there. We often try to connect with nature by trying to alter it, but in all reality, it isn't nature at all, but another chance for humans to try and alter nature. In the excerpt "The Last Child in the Woods", by Richard Lou v it explains three important devices. They happen to be: Analogy, foreshadowing, and satire. To begin, with the difference of human and nature in "Last Child" by Louv, the device of an analogy is demonstrated. We often compare ourselves with nature, but we are yet to realize that we really cannot do that. We are no where in comparison with nature so for us to compare ourselves to it is a disgrace to nature. In this article we are comparing nature to a waste of space, because of the way that we use nature. We use "ads" for our own luxuries to take up the space that we use that is also called nature. When we put the park bench with our name and our business on the grass that we just ruined, we are ruining nature. We treat …show more content…
What we do not realize, is the fact that we use nature for what we want, but eventually we will use up all of the nature and then there will be none to use. Growing up, children were taught about the world saw it through the backseat. In the article, "Last Child", it describes that we tend to give our children more of an opportunity to watch anything but nature, yet we complain when they want nothing to do with it. We grew up with nature as our movie, and because of our actions there will soon not be a movie like that to watch. It is a fact that with the way that humans are not connecting with nature, it is foreshadowing the fact that there will soon be no nature to connect with, even for our own