Last Child In The Woods Summary

Writer, Richard Louv in, “Last Child in the Woods” states that people today do not respect or really even acknowledge nature. Louv’s purpose is to tell people what their kids are missing out on, and to persuade them to stop worrying about entertaining their kids, or themselves, with a screen. He uses a concerned tone in order to optimize his chances of the reader changing their mind or thinking about the way they lived and the way their kids line now. People nowadays are concerned with technology and making everything better. Technology is a part of everyone’s lives now. Whether it be television, cell phones, or a computer. They are even trying to genetically modify butterflies so they look more appealing to us. Louv says, “The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of “true” nature - the certainty that it’s not even worth looking at.” Do people really think nature in itself is not pretty enough that they have to modify it? Louv
If you take your children to the park they could meet new kids and make friends. You could also ask the parents of their friends at school and invite them to join you and your children. That way your children get exercise, social interactions with other people besides their family and time away from home and technology. Another benefit is that you get to make friends with their friends’ parents, you get out of the house as well and you get to enjoy the outdoors. Louv’s passage from Last Child is appealing the reader’s emotions and trying to make them realize that they are missing out on way more than they think. Their children are basically living their lives without seeing the world around them. Soon the world around them could be completely changed to “look more appealing” to the human eye. The world could also be gone before they even know it. Do not take nature for granted. There’s plenty of natural beauty that we should not change, and that we need to