The following passage from the Last Child in the Woods delivers a well thought out explanation for for the irrelevance for “true nature” and how it is indeed not even looked at nowadays. Through the use of logos, pathos, and parallelism Richard Louv develops a meaningful argument that gives insight to the deterioration between people and nature.
Throughout the passage Louv describes the dying relationship of people and nature through a mocking tone to give make it clear that he is against this new revelation. Logically Louv delivers a sound argument as to why this movement is not good, but it’s also detrimental to the mind of the young. Like Louv has stated, “Americans say they want their children to watch less TV,” but as a whole we “continue to expand the opportunities” to do so and this logic is clearly hypocritical. The established logos here entails to the reader the depiction of a profound situation and how even though as whole we know that we
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By using his own experience Louv established pathos in his argument by communicating the ideas of the past with when he,”[used to look] out the car window”, which relates to the reader as at some point everybody has traveled in the back seat. The established pathos here serves to give the reader the feeling of something dying and being lost to time, as for a matter of fact, it is dying and Louv calls further attention to that by using the same mocking tone. By poking fun at the kids in the future he uses this mocking tone to not only deliver how times are changing but uses that same message to demonstrate how sad it is that what used to be a common place is now being replaced, which to some emotionally impacts them to see something disappear like that. The emotionally appeal serves as a great way to back his argument as the reader will now relate to the writer while also recognizing the new behavior that is starting to