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Essay A. Summary
The author of the article begins the essay in an extremely captivating manner. The story revolves around the prominent character named saguaro. The writer defines the large cactus found in deserts as funny objects that make the desert look less tedious a dry than it should be. Throughout his description of saguaros, the writer shows some extensible knowledge and understanding while giving facts on how long they can grow and live before falling. The writer then shifts from talking about the saguaros and introduces the real picture of where he is. In his narration, the author focuses on the olden days when apaches used to attack citizens forcing them to run to hide in the mountain until they (the apaches) had left. The writer also focuses on the desert and the experiences while sojourning. In the end, he mentions a hotel with a hot-tempered woman and another town with no life in it (Moon 111) A. Questions set 1 1. Surgeons are large cactus that looks like trees. They grow to be about 200 years old. However, most of them fall of with half the age to full maturity. They grow arms after forty to fifty years. The rate of maturity is six million to one. (Benson, 122) 2. Cactus wrens use the surgeons as their nest. The birds curve their nests in surgeons. In the nest, they are safe from all things expect the black raisers which swallow eggs whole. 3. The sentence show how empty and hot Arizona was where the only place to find a place with a shadow was at the bottom of the rock (Rivera 218). 4. The American Indian believed that one was possessed by demons once they entered the mountains. Diabolic possessions means that they were infatuated by Satan like characteristics. 5. The atmosphere at Payson was cold since the writer had to pull up his coat. Payson in the old days used to be attacked by apaches then they stopped, and the locals used to hold festivals. Now it is merely a quiet place except for the sawmill (Drezner 16). 6. The highway relates to the environment because it does not run against the nature; environmental future but instead runes alongside whatever the environment offers. 7. Moon attitude towards the man with the bicycle was more like friendly. However, the man responded with unfriendliness since he never acknowledges greetings. The phrase a Child's toy is used to describe the man’s bike. This is because moon considered the mountain unusually stiff for a bicycle to be use as means of transportation. 8. The writer claims to have seen some two cars down the hill.
Questions set two 1. The shape and look of surgeons means that he actual way that the plant appears to look like. The surgeon’s blossoms means that the surgeons were doing well in that weather. The dives of cactus ware means that the birds flew down with extreme speed and precision. The appearance of nine mountain ranges means that the writer could count nine ranges that had formed around the mountain 2. The narrator moon uses time space to create anticipation within the readers he waits to introduce himself in paragraph three. This technique is used as a way of capturing the reader’s attention. 3. A short paragraph leaves the reader room to breathe. They also kill the monotony in the story making it more enjoyable. 4. Seventh paragraph when the writer describes the sign on the door. The tenth when he describes the man on the bicycle. The fifth paragraph when he describes the cold breeze that made him to pull up his jacket (Deirdre 45). 5. Moon uses actual dialogue to show exactly how the situation was. He also uses it to break the monotony of the story as well as introducing some humor in the story. 6. The first sense of humor is used as a pointer since the hotel clearly only refused live animals. The reason of asking where he could water his lizard from was to liven up the mood of the story. The woman ignored because she thought it, not fanny. 7. According to my own opinion, I find the ending to be a bit abrupt. However, it does flow with the rest of the story, but the writer finished it at once. B. Essay
In my mind, I oftentimes wonder why I travel to this place remarkably filled with unwinding roads and steep hills. Ever since I was young we had been travelling to this place with my parents and I still come back even with my advanced age. I posed a question to myself, “what it is that I seek out of this place?” The sun torments my skin during daytime while the cold spares not my bones at night. The loneliness is solemn. Worse still, there is nobody to neither talk to, air out my grievances, nor share a hearty laugh. At first, I thought the place gave me mental calm, but I felt nothing at all. I still felt the same whenever I went back to the city. Between me and this place there was no emotional attachment what so ever. In fact, to be honest, the island had nothing else but water and a large, empty house that my parents had bought. As the night fell so did the deafening silence. The silence was so loud it made me sick to my gats.
On this particular cold night, I sat by the fireside watching the flame devouring the wood into ash while smelling the sweet smell of burning timber. This smell always reminded me of a far away place in Africa. Where the bugging of the drums will be felt through out the night as the enchantments and rituals were performed, or so I had. I my self had never been to Africa but I thought about it often. I always wondered what it felt like living in the deep forest where the beast of men would be hard roaring the night away. I sat on the leather sit thinking about nothing to be precise. All I thought was how much I hated being here in Graham Island, North Dakota.

Works cited
Benson, L. The Cacti of Arizona. University of Arizona Press. 2001. Print
Deirdre, David. The Cambridge companion to the novel. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print
Drezner, Saguaro. Growth Rate over Its American Range and the Link to Summer Precipitation. Southwest Nat 2005, 50:65–68.
Moon, William. Blue Highways: A Journey into America. New York. Pimlico, 2001. Print
Rivera, Steve .Tales from the Arizona Wildcats Hardwood. Sports Publishing LLC, 2004. Print