Scott Russell Sanders Buckeye Sparknotes

Scott Russel Sanders’s Buckeye is a memoir, in which the author reminisces about his late father. He fondly recalls his father’s attachment to buckeyes, believing that it would help him overcome arthritis. He highlights his love for his father and the land he once lived on by using vivid sensory details. Throughout the story, Sanders describes events and surroundings with specific details that bring readers into the story, allowing them to watch it unfold as if they were there with the author. His father walked “in a circle around the splayed roots of a sycamore, laying his hands against the feathery green boughs of cedar” (11). We can imagine his father walking around a sycamore tree, with his hands on the bark. We can imagine the “feathery”