Travel With Charley By John Steinbeck Analysis

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“The American finds his challenge and his love in traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die...the logs are ground up, the air smells of chemicals, the rivers are choked and poisoned, and the streets swarm with this happy, hurrying breed.” (Page 56, Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America). The book Travels with Charley written by John Steinbeck displays the loss of nature which still plagues America today. One can see an example of the loss of nature on page 138 of Travels with Charley. In the book it states,“The tops of hills are shaved off to make level warrens for the rabbits of the …show more content…
Page 100 of Travels with Charley states, “It took me nearly four hours to get through the Twin Cities. And I never found Golden Valley.” The quote supports the claim of roads causing a lost connection with nature. According to www.artba.org, “Currently the U.S has 4.12 million center-line miles of roads, providing 8.66 lane-miles for highway travel…” The quote supports the claim because people are using all of the roads to travel, but are not experiencing the nature around them. The argument against the claim states because of roads people can get to natural attractions more quickly than without roads. According to Google Maps it takes 31 hours to get to Yosemite National Park from Shelbyville, IN by car, and 684 hours by walking. Roads push nature away, and traveling so quickly causes people to miss the nature around them.
The loss of nature plagues America today like it did in John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley. The use and time spent on technology causes a lost connection with nature. The construction of roads also causes the loss of nature. Having a connection with nature can benefit Americans by making the natural world easier to
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