In this passage from The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart's Memoir about growing up in North Dakota, Marquart convey’s her found love for an area overlooked by the rest of the world. Through her use of diction and the juxtaposition of a land dubbed “uninhabitable” by the “early assessors,” she is able to convince the reader of her own unique outlook on the serenity of “easy inclines and farmable plains”(). In the first line, Marquart displays the general negative perspective on North Dakota, “lonely,” and “ treeless”(). The description of her home as a uniform isolated place is an “indignity” from which the region has struggled to recover(). The fact that Marquart is offended by these negative remarks shows that she disagrees with their stance
