Rhetorical Analysis Of Last Child By Richard Louv

In the essay, Last Child, by Richard Louv, he discusses the impact of modern technology on the children. It talks about how many parts of nature have become synthetic with the addition of ads and posted everywhere. The essay also talks about how for kids today, the idea of being in nature, is optional. Before nature played such a major role in society, kids played outside more and were more in touch with their natural surroundings. While riding in cars, kids used to look out the windows for entertainment, now kids keep their heads forward in the car, looking at a tv screen. Now a days, kids are even able to hook up video games in their parents vehicles in order to keep them occupied during the drive. Much understanding of how the world worked and was connected, was learned from the backseat of a car. However, now, as the availability of technology increases, a kids opportunity for learning about the world they live in decreases. Three rhetorical devices that Louv uses in, Last Child, to develop his argument of separation of people and nature are satire, analogy, and foreshadowing.

The first rhetorical device that Louv uses in, Last Child, is satire. The author uses satire when talking about explaining to our grandchildren how we sought entertainment. In the essay when using dialogue of speaking to our future grandchildren,
When the author talks about the conversion we will one day have with out children, he is foreshadowing. He is predicting what society will look like in the distant future and how much change we will experience. The author states that in his time, looking out the window and the ihabitants of nature was a way of entertainment. This fed their curiosity and helped kids consider the past, dream of the future, and watched it all go by in the blink of an eye. In the future, the author makes the prediction that kids will be so detached and focus on the synthetic parts of