When I read this essay, I was seeing a distinctive picture
of the wild atmosphere. Spragg uses blunt sentence structures—the first
sentence, “This place is violent and it is raw,” immediately pulls the reader
in, to explain Wyoming
with its rugged qualities. The use of “nakedness, or leniency,” shows readers
that Wyoming
is not a place for the weak or faint of heart. This essay flows from paragraph to paragraph with
the description of the wind, the landscape, the animals, nature, then he goes
on to describe what it is like without the wind. The wind is pictured as, “…unchoreographed
with the spontaneous inelegance of a brawl,” which is a brilliant way to show
that the wind is uncontrollable and is chaotic. He effectively shows the
adaption to a climate and culture, by showing how people act silly when there
is no wind such as yelling or being inattentive to new surroundings. He
explains his adaption with Wyoming by always
being “alert,” with the opposition of saying that Wyoming is not a place for naïve people.
Some of this seems to drift a little. I think you could have written the whole response on that one line about the wind being like a "brawl."
ReplyDeleteLook back at this. What's the main idea?
DW