Question

Writers organize their writings to make an impact on their readers. In Muir's writing about the Calypso Borealis, he places opposing views of his journey close together. Read the following paragraphs. In two to four sentences, explain the opposite views of the two paragraphs and discuss the impact of placing these opposite views close together The worst in the most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first Grand excursion was Calypso Borealis and the hider of the North. I had been forwarding streams more and more difficult to cross and waddling bogs and swamps that seemed more and more expensive and more difficult to Force Ones way through entering one of these great paramedic Ann Arbor veiltail swamps one morning holding a general through very crooked course by a compass struggling through Tangled drooping branches and over and under Brock heaps of falling trees I began to fear that I will not be able to reach dry grounds before dark and therefore would have to pass a night in the swamp and begin faint and hungry to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or Wind Falls like a monkeys nest or Eagles or Indians in the flooded Forest of the ornoico described by humboldt But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed more bewildering and discouraging I found beauty Calypso on the mossy Bank of stream growing not in the ground but on the bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb haven't found a softness and from which it's one leaf and one flower sprung the flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple pretty like a snow flower no other Bloom was near it for the bog a short distance below has her face was still frozen and the water was ice cold it seemed the most spiritual all flower people I have never met I sat down beside it and barely cried for joy

Answer 1

I believe the author is trying to shoe people's different view of life. There are those who see life as a dangerous adventure that they will not make through. While others see life as a blessing and live it for the journey, not the destination.