Cabin Fever A Suburban Father's Search For The Wild
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In Search of the Lost Balance of Life Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild written by Tom Montgomery Fate is a book structured around nature and the four seasons. Fate uncovers diverse topics to the reader such as technology, parenting, art, and even love and sex. As a father, teacher, and sometimes even a writer, Fate builds a cabin in the backwoods of Michigan where he attempts to connect Thoreau’s readings to his current life style. He tries to establish a better link with the uninhabited to become part of it. Being a parent living in the suburbs of Chicago, he could not nearly be as close to experiencing the same connection Thoreau had with nature. Therefore, by finding himself surrounded with nature in a cabin, Fate…show more content… For example, Fate states that “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?” (Fate 2). In this passage, Fate emphasizes in the different types of people and the speed at which they live. A message about slowing down and enjoying change seems to be the loudest meaning of his writing. A change that would make people appreciates the present, without rushing into the next season. The author uses the seasons as a way to order his writings in an emotional way, thus in the spring, we begin to see the emotion of joy coming in and moving into summer. But as the book progresses, the seasons swap from fall to winter, and we begin to see the emotion of depression come into play. We then notice that his writings begin to emphasize on deaths and less joyful topics during this season of winter; a direct connection with the unhappiness and dissatisfaction of our modern