The device that this picture uses is metaphor. The gun is being compared to technology progression over the years. The girl is nature or life that people don’t pay attention to. People have numerously amount of problems that they deal with that distract them about what life really is. This picture shows how the problems we have, takes our opportunity to go through what life can really be about. As the technology advances, the more it hurts us and life. Thoreau wants people to forget all about the technology because it is killing Mother
