The Beauty of Nature

“The first warm days of March appears to call out a kind of miracle here: the explosion of nearly half our desert’s flowering species, all stirred suddenly into a brief cycle of bloom and death.” In the scientific essay “Called Out” by Barbara Kingsolver, she explains about the mysterious beauty of the desert and gives explanations about how the plants adapt to the desert by communicating in connotative, figurative, and technical language. Kingsolver first begins to use connotative language in the beginning of her scientific essay to show the reader in detail of how the desert plants are able to survive in the desert and to express their physical state they’re in. One example shown connotative was when she describe the colors and physical structure of the desert wildflower by writing, “Our desert hills and valleys were colorized in wild schemes of maroon, indigo, tangerine, and some hues that Crayola hasn’t named yet.” Kingsolver expresses how beautiful the desert flower were when they bloom in 1998 and how she saw many wonderful colorful plants across the valleys and hills. …show more content…
One example that is shown of figurative language is when she wrote, “femail rain, as opposed to the “male rain” of the summer-those rowdy thunderstorm disrupt the hot afternoons,...” at first it seems to not make any sense but it describes how the rain can be sometimes be calm, lovely, and gentle until it begins to rain harder with the thunderstorm that is really nosie and wild that disrupt the days. Describing the rowdy thunderstorm helps the reader visual the storm being calm at one moment and beginning wild and noisy the