Lost Child In The Woods By Richard Louv

“Lost Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv details today’s newest technology to discuss the widening gap between man and nature. Louv uses an anecdote, provides the reader with metaphors, and creates a hypothetical situation to develop his argument
The reason Louv gives for writing this passage is that of a friends recent visit to the car dealership. During her visit, when prompted about a backseat entertainment system for her car she replied she did not want one and “the salesman’s jaw dropped.” This story was a so-called “wake-up call for the writer.” The salesmen represents the bulk of society, obsessed with technology and cannot see the bad in its greatest advancements. In his friend’s experience he realizes that society is drawing further from nature, and something must be done about it.
The backseat of a car is a vital part of how Lov’s generation viewed the world. Today kids “watch Sesame Street or play Grand Theft Auto” but yesterday the backseat was a true “Drive by movie.” Children’s ideas of how cities and nature fit together used to be developed from endless car rides of “never ending scenery and telephone poles.” Today, the only things youth watch or puppets of violence. Imagination is no longer entertaining kids, but simply whatever is playing on the back of the
In the parents “useful boredom” of their childhood car rides were filled with playing with toy cars and dreaming of a whole new world, “and they watched it all go by in the blink of an eye.” Louv uses a situation everyone has gone through, immense boredom during a car ride, to appeal to the readers feeling of nostalgia. These times, although they seemed endless then, were vital parts of the author’s childhood; they are a memory that could soon be disappearing for today’s youth. Imagination is what build Louv’s generation, and if the Baby Boomers do not slow down and look around it could all be gone “in the blink of an