“Nature says, -- [man] is my creature.” However, man has grown detached from nature and insensibly created this beaten track that is now being mended. This epoch of separation between people and nature has grown increasingly strong - where we have grown attached to materialistic things. In “Last Child in the Woods”, Richard Louv explores this trend that has been ever so present by using literary elements: ethos, pathos, anecdote, and antithesis to develop his argument. To begin, Louv establishes ethos with the reader by introducing writer Matt Richtel whom explores the simulation of nature in advertisement. The sole purpose of simulating nature is to portray the real world rather than one that is virtually made. The ‘sheer popularity’ of simulating
