Have you ever gone outside on a nice, windy day, and smelled the scent of freshly cut grass or the aroma of blooming flowers in your garden and thought it was wonderful. Now think about if you had gone outside just like the first time, as in weather, but all you could smell was an environmentally devastating chemical that you had sprayed on your flower bed and your grass and the air was filled with the scent of chemicals that will eventually kill us. Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment, its importance is that it helps to inform people of the environment and how it is being affected by the things we use on our plants. Many people have tackled this type of writing for several decades through persuasive pieces about the …show more content…
This is a place of nature and home to many different species of animals. Gene Stratton Porter goes there to see the many different types of birds that live in the Limber Lost Swamp. In Moths of the Limber Lost the author gives a quote that states, “It is quite true that "One man's meat is another's poison." When poor Limber, lost and starving in the fastnesses of the swamp, gave to it a name, afterward to be on the lips of millions; to him it was deadly poison. To me it has been of unspeakable interest, unceasing work of joyous nature, and meat in full measure, with occasional sweetbreads by way of a treat”(Porter, 1912). This shows that even though Limber starved to death in the swamp, Gene Stratton Porter found beauty in the environmental aspect of the swamp. She went to the swamp to research the birds in the swamp in order to study the nature in the swamp. “Now, the Limber Lost exists only in ragged spots and patches, but so rich was it in the beginning that there is yet a wealth of work for a lifetime remaining to me in these, and river thickets. I ask no better hunting grounds for birds, moths, and flowers. The fine roads are a convenience, and settled farms a protection, to be taken into consideration, when bewailing its dismantling”(Porter, 1912). This shows that the Limber Lost Swamp was once a great and beautiful …show more content…
Dr. Seuss, the greatest children’s author of all time, used his imagination every day and in particular when he wrote The Lorax and used his imagination to write a fictional novel about how if we don’t protect the environment it will never get better. One example from The Lorax would be “Then I chopped down a truffula tree with one chop. And with great skillful skill and with great speedy speed, I took the small tuft”(Seuss, 1971). This shows how the Once-ler had no care in the world for what the environment needed and just took what he needed and didn’t care who it harmed. Another example would be “I’m busy,” I told him, “so shut up if you please”(Seuss, 1971). This shows that the Once-ler was too worried about making money and killing the environment to care about what the Lorax had to say and why he should have protected the environment. This kind of ecocriticism has been very effective for many fiction writers and not just Dr. Seuss. It has helped to convince people to take better care of the environment for many