Audience: Common man of America
Purpose: Share beliefs that nature should be kept to itself
What specific details stay in your mind? Why? How do these small details lead to larger ideas?
Abbey's humor throughout the beginning of this piece was particularly noticeable. It is the first time I have noticed an environmentalist using entertaining anecdotes, and I appreciated it a lot. I especially enjoyed the scene in which the governmental agents were speaking to Abbey as if he were a child or imbecile who was just too ignorant to understand what they were saying, while he, at the same time, thought of them as being fools.
By being entertaining, and accepting that different people have different opinions on how to treat the environment, Abbey is putting his reader at ease. He allows them to believe that he does not have a propagandist agenda, but is simply a story teller who is speaking his own views of the world.
His humorous details lead into his main purpose, which is to inform and hopefully convince others that nature preserves should focus on the preservation of nature, not on the human enjoyment of them.
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