Misaabe's Ecological Appeals Essay

Names:Professor:Course:Date:Misaabe’s Ecological AppealsNature is the central theme in the stories FeatherTruth, Tree Desire and Kneel There. The author appears to appreciate nature and desires that all men learn to appreciate nature because it is the basis for survival. While speaking of water droplets in Kneel There, there is constant reference to men and water running into rivers and making up a huge part of human bodies. As the author notes; ‘We are water, men; our blood is water, our blood runs’ (Meland 62). The author makes intricate comparisons that just as water runs, so does human blood and this makes it essential for men to appreciate and protect nature. In FeatherTruth, the author speaks of the beauty and good smell of a feather. He offers further advice that men should pick a feather from the tree base and smell it as it is and not as they desire it to smell because it is beautiful. Misaabe, therefore, wants men to think of everything in terms of nature because there is an inexorable link between nature and life. Repetition of the word men and the use of a semicolon in punctuation denotes the idea of emphasis, inferring that the author