Louv provides an example that conveys the idea that people are truly unaware of the toll technology can take on a person’s life. Louv mentions that a friend of his went shopping for a new car and the sales person mentioned tv’s in the backseat. When Louv’s friend said she didn’t want tv’s for her children the salesman was shocked. “The Salesman jaw dropped when I said I didn’t want a backseat television monitor for my daughter.” The salesman couldn’t comprehend why Louv’s friend didn’t want the the tv’s. Louv does this to show how unattached people can be from real life and instead engaged in artificial things such as technology. Louv shows that technology is such a relevant factor in today’s society that people are blinded by it and therefore can’t experience the goodness of nature. Louv utilizes his friends story in order to awaken the blindness people may be experiencing due to technology and as a result this makes the reader rethink their decisions on
Louv provides an example that conveys the idea that people are truly unaware of the toll technology can take on a person’s life. Louv mentions that a friend of his went shopping for a new car and the sales person mentioned tv’s in the backseat. When Louv’s friend said she didn’t want tv’s for her children the salesman was shocked. “The Salesman jaw dropped when I said I didn’t want a backseat television monitor for my daughter.” The salesman couldn’t comprehend why Louv’s friend didn’t want the the tv’s. Louv does this to show how unattached people can be from real life and instead engaged in artificial things such as technology. Louv shows that technology is such a relevant factor in today’s society that people are blinded by it and therefore can’t experience the goodness of nature. Louv utilizes his friends story in order to awaken the blindness people may be experiencing due to technology and as a result this makes the reader rethink their decisions on