In Richard Louv's passage Last Child in the Woods, he contrasts people and nature. Louv’s purpose is to show the reader the separation between people and nature in today's society. He adopts an informative tone to appeal to logos as well as using a personal anecdote to appeal to the reader's sense of pathos.
To create an informative tone in the first paragraph, Louv chooses to use words such as, “experimenting,” “conjure,” and “stamp” because these say exactly what is going on. In addition to…
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