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Summary Of Nature Lessons By Nancy Lord
The love between a father and daughter overlooks many differences. “Nature Lessons” a short story by Nancy Lord follows Marco, a nature loving man from Alaska and his teenage daughter from Los Angeles Mary in Alaska for two weeks. The theme conveyed through out the short story is that love defeats many differences in a relationship. Marco is from Alaska and Mary is from Los Angeles, which adds a complicated layer to their relationship. Marco loves nature and “encountering] … God's other creatures”(1). Since Mary is from Los Angeles she does not have the same view on nature. Mary and Marco also differ on how they like to pass time. Mary prefers to spend her time “inside with her tapes or radio”(11). Marco sees this as odd but, allows Mary

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