English 120 Sec 113
Instructor: L. Stein
20 October 2008
Essay #4
Environmental Interest and Effectiveness
Preserving the environment is an issue that is gaining more interest as time goes by. Today more and more people are environmental friendly and take in account the human activity that damages the environment and what are its long term effects. Both, Linnea Saukko in her essay “How to Poison the Earth,” and Gretel Ehrlich in her essay “Chronicles of Ice” write about the environment and their concern towards it being preserved. Though in both essays the preservation of the environment is the main focus, and the authors use the same approach, they differ in writing style.
The major difference between Saukko‘s and Ehrlich’s essay is the style of the essays. Saukko’s writing is referred to as direct process analysis, but she also uses satire, which is very effective when it comes to keeping the reader interested. She uses phrases like, “Preserving the earth can be difficult because the earth is always trying to renew itself” (238), which is the first sentence of the essay, to sarcastically express her concern. The essay focuses mainly on …show more content…
She uses personal experience to express her concern on the effect of human activity on the environment. She is very detailed and descriptive which makes the essay informative, attracting readers who would be specifically interested in glaciers and what is causing them to decline rather than a general audience interested in the overall effects of other environmental issues as