Before hand, my understanding of Bewilderment was unclear. After, reading Edward Abbey’s short story, Nature and the Environment, and other story Bewilderment. I grasped a better understanding of what bewilderment is. What I came to discover is that bewilderment is to be confused and uncertain. That life is constantly changing and unknown. These unknowns make people fill with curiosity and widen their minds. I love how these words opened my mind. In Nature and the Environment Author Edward Abbey paints a vivd and descriptive image in the readers mind with his way with words. He makes the reader feels as if they are in the dessert with him, he most defiantly makes the words jump off the page. I really enjoyed how Edward Abbey took the time to write about all the things he saw such as the birds and the way the wind sounded. He stressed an importance on the details which I feel is important in life since many people let it fly over their heads. I came to the conclusion that the author Edward Abbey is a very environmentally friendly, now that isn’t to say that bewilderment is tied in with nature. I just think thats how Abbey wanted to describe it since he has a passion for nature. Bewilderment to me means confusion in life, in all it’s aspects whether that be school, friendships, marriage, career, or romantic relations. I feel as if bewilderment is fitting to almost everything because life itself isn’t certain and that leads people to be confused and uncertain.
While I was reading the two essays, I was unsure what the term bewilderment was as well. It was until the end of Fanny Howe’s essay when I started having a better understanding. Bewilderment is a state of uncertainty and unexplainable confusion. Being certain in some cases is important and can be an essential to life. At times you have to be certain that your life is safe, such as the way Edward Abbey was when he moved away from the uncertainty of the snake’s actions. By leaving the uncertainty of life, he might have saved his. Certainty is also necessary when explaining an argument. Although both essays were explaining bewilderment, there is a needed certainty that what they were saying is true otherwise the reader will not take them seriously. Bewilderment is also a necessity however. As both authors made clear that not everything has to be known. There is a certain aesthetic beauty in not knowing and by being confused by the happening around you. If we knew everything as a fact, there would be no fun or excitement in life.
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