John Muir

John Muir's audience for his essays is the person that looks at the land as being a wonder that God created. His purpose is to convince the reader that some of the things we assume the devil created, such as the alligator and bear, are not as bad as we make them out to be. He tries to gain authority by making you think he went through these adventures. He uses emotion to drawl you in an example of this is when the dog is being attackted by the alligator.

A First American Views His Land

The attended audiance for this essay is people who are interested in the way the first American viewed there land. The purpose of this essay is to let the audiance know how the first Americans viewed the land as they learned how to survive off the land. The woman who died and they burried her in a very butiful hide dress. When he was discussing it in the essay he mentioned the fact that they did not mark her grave so they only have a small idea of where they burried the body. This goes back to the whole purpose of the article about how the first Americans viewed the land and nature.

The Wilding: A Fiction Reading

I chose to attend The Wilding: A Fiction Reading by Benjamin Percy. Jimmy an ISU graduate student did the introduction before the author began his reading. The three main characters in the book are Brian a war vet, Justin a teacher, and Karin Justin's wife. I found this novel very different from what we have been reading for class. Throughout the whole reading you could feel all the feelings that the characters were going through. Also, you could feel their pain. Durning the whole reading I felt I was right there in the same surrounding as characters.

This type of novel is not what I would normally read for fun. I normally read western romance novels in my free time, but after listening to the reading I have decided to spice things up next September and buy the book and read it with my friends.