Mary Austin's Land Of Little Rain

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In the book, Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin expressed many different ways that a person would treat the natural world. Some people would come and leave it just the way it was before coming, while many others tended to leave very noticeable traces on the land they had gone through. She specifically focused on how the Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Anglo Americans grasped and treated the land that they would live and travel to. When Austin encountered the Native Americans in the story, she was able to tell a significant difference between them and the Anglo Americans. The Native Americans were the ones who would use the resources of the land to their advantage but they would leave no tracks of them ever being there. Similar to how the Pocket Hunter was able to go out into the desert with very minimal amount of supplies and he could survive on just what nature provided for him. The Native Americans had a huge…show more content…
She described them as materialistic and shallow. They often would go into nature and you would definitely be able to tell that someone was there. They didn’t treat nature as something good. They were just oblivious to the greatness that it brought. This is how many Americans live their life today as well. I think Austin would be very disappointed if she saw how some people treat the environment in the world today. In the story “The Scavenger” there was a part where Austin explained what man would do when he entered the desert. She explained how man would leave unnatural materials and how those unnatural items left would have no purpose after he left and it would just create unnecessary garbage in the deserts natural cycle. The things that this man did described how many of Anglo Americans tended to treat the world. They had a sense of greatness towards themselves and not towards the land they lived on which led them to not appreciate it at
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