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Jenny Allen's Essay 'The Trouble With Nature'
In Jenny Allens's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is ulitized in ordder to entertain the reader and draw the audience closer to the writer.
The two paragraphs inform a reader about the wroters purpose by its' humorous tone,Jenny Allen uses the irony of nature to her advantage. jenny States,"many people take themselves upstairs to their bedroom...while they are staring at the ceiling,they notice that the spider web now have something suspended in them- small brown balls the size of peas. These,they realize, are eggssacs, filled with thousounds upon thousands of tiny spiders yet to be born" (Allen12). As the story goes on , the person who is trying to hide away from the racoon or bats or whatever it may be that nature is sending them, tries

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