Summary Of Richard Louv's Last Child In The Woods

Author, Richard Louv, in his novel, Last Child in the Woods (2008), emphasizes on innovational changes from generation to generation. Louv’s purpose is to demonstrate to the reader how materialized the world has become and how much of Earth’s bare beauty is often ignored due to major rises in technology. He adopts a wise tone in order to show the inevitable change in man’s relationship with nature as the world becomes technologically rooted. Lauv begins this section of the book by providing a base for comparison between nature's relation to human life previously, compared to now as shown in lines 2-4, “genetic technology through which researchers can chose the colors that appear on butterfly wing.” He uses comparison as a rhetorical strategy