Jhon Miur

John Miur's a Thounsand Mile Walk to the Gulf is mainly focused to criticize the judeo-christian perspective of nature. Because of this characteristic it is aimed to a broad spectrum of audieces, even though one can infer that it is essentially aimed to American Christians. His authority is built around his own negative experience with an alligator, that puts him in a reasonable position to speak of alligators and nature. This negative experience overlaps with pathos, because the audience can identify the sense of losing something precious and loved as a dog and creates anger towards the alligators. From this two points the author builds his logic describing the antipathies and explaining the root of this antipathies on the "wrong" assumptions that the judeo -christian faith has.

Class activity

Because of the reflective nature of the text and its rhetoric, the intended audience is western hemisphere people and developed countries population.

The purpose is to reflect on the abuses of the human kind to nature.

He uses the contrast between American Indians and western abuses.

Snap Shot

I had the oportunity to assist to two of the events on the symposium, from them the one that had the bigest impact on me was the reading of the short stories performed by Rick Bass. He red two short stories, both had as a subject food, and more clearly the abuse of it, and the relation of this abuse with the enviroment. Out of this two stories the one that I think is more effective was the second one; he really made a very interesting fusion of several complex topics. His childhood and inocence oposed to the ambition and greed of the "Titans" (very rich people), and the relationship of the greed and glutony with the extintion.