The passage is an excerpt from the book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. The main idea of the passage is that we are slowly censoring nature and children are becoming less and less interested and aware of the outside world. He use many devices, such as appeals to logos and pathos, and current events and trends to convince the reader. Does it make sense to want someone to do something, but give them numerous more things to do instead? Jouv uses rhetorical questions in lines 43 to 47, like the one above to make the reader think about actions they are taking. Moreover they provide a smooth segway to his appeal to pathos. The author pulls at the heart strings, by making the reader feel
