The Last Children In The Woods Analysis

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv utilizes first person throughout the end of the passage to form a connection with the audience and relate to the readers on a personal level. Louv describes a time when he was a young boy sitting in the backseat. Louv states, “We actually looked out the car window,” “We saw birds on the wires and combines in the fields,” “We were fascinated with roadkill, and we counted cows …show more content…
Louv provides an example that conveys the idea that people are truly unaware of the toll technology can take on a person’s life. Louv mentions that a friend of his went shopping for a new car and the sales person mentioned tv’s in the backseat. When Louv’s friend said she didn’t want tv’s for her children the salesman was shocked. “The Salesman jaw dropped when I said I didn’t want a backseat television monitor for my daughter.” The salesman couldn’t comprehend why Louv’s friend didn’t want the the tv’s. Louv does this to show how unattached people can be from real life and instead engaged in artificial things such as technology. Louv shows that technology is such a relevant factor in today’s society that people are blinded by it and therefore can’t experience the goodness of nature. Louv utilizes his friends story in order to awaken the blindness people may be experiencing due to technology and as a result this makes the reader rethink their decisions on