Descriptive a Place: Logged Forest

The giant tree trunks lay sprawled on the forest floor, like fallen soldiers, scattering a large blanket of dead leaves over the forest floor. Flocks of birds soar over their now destroyed nests and homes; gone forever because of logging destruction of the once beautiful forest. The once lively breeze that wound its way through the clearing no longer rustles the leaves of the once great trees. An enormous mountain of the once great and mighty trees, much like a pile of corpses, left and forgotten, stands alone. It is starting to rot, giving off an earthy, dying smell, like rotting fruit. A rusty unkempt abandoned truck stands to the right of the wood, and the colours of the dying logs and the rusting truck contrasting perfectly well with each other.

The fauna of the forest has moved over to the neighbouring forests of the destroyed forest. The once untouched soil of the forest floor is now moved by the loud and thunderous landing of the trees on the forest floor. The insects and small beings living in the soil of the forest floor loudly interrupted by the outside destruction. The trunks of the trees stay plastered to the floor, but no longer part of the tree. The trunks are the only part of the trees still connected and one with the earth connected by deep roots, and one with the earth covering the forest floor for miles. The land that once was a forest can be seen for miles, The logged and uninhibited forest connects to multiple other forests, like suburbs connecting to other suburbs. voluptuous, green, vigorous, untouched and sprawling with life, and most noticeably, healthy. The fate of these forests is still unknown to them. These forests are full of life, and bring much joy and prosperity to those inside, just like the now destroyed forest once did, but gone forever in the logging destruction.

The roaring sound felling machine can be heard for miles. The roaring machine sounds are a roar of a large, teethed and clawed animal. The saw of the machine cutting through the doomed trees send chips of wood flying, like small aeroplanes, flying through the air, but their flight cut short. The tired yet still determined workers controlling the machines make slow progress cutting each tree in the forest down one by one. Sweat drips off their dirt ridden faces. In the midst of annihilation, flocks of birds fly over the dying forest, fleeing the forest to find a new home. Smack, bang, boom. The deafening lurid sound of great trees falling to the ground fills the air and is heard from miles. The earsplitting sound of the roaring machines and trees falling is enough to send a man mad. The workers are protected from these sounds with tight ear muffs.

The trees are dragged and loaded onto trucks, to be turned into materialistic items, used by humans. Perhaps still inhabiting the trees, relocated, or deceased, but the thousands of animals that called the forest home and inhabited the forest are now nowhere to be found. Much like people stripped of their house for not paying rent the animals have had their home taken from them and are homeless.

The works continue their work until to the sun has set over the forest, and work again at the crack of the dawn, just like clockwork. The workers return home to their families, making their living by the destruction of the forest.

My descriptive a place of a logged forest uses a range of descriptive techniques to make the reader feel the emotion of anger when reading about the destructiveness of logging. The purpose of the descriptive the logged forest is to make the reader feel a certain emotion. I want the reader to feel angry towards logging. I want them to feel this way because logging is destructive and causes animals to lose their homes. I also want people to be more aware of the current issue of logging.

The first descriptive technique I used was a simile. For example: “The giant tree trunks lay sprawled on the forest floor, like fallen soldiers, scattering dead leaves”. I used a simile because it encourages the reader to see connections between objects and can create an interesting visual image in the readers head.

The second technique I used while describing a place was imagery. For example: “The logged and uninhibited forest connects to multiple other forests, like suburbs connecting to other suburbs”. I used this technique because it allows the reader to imagine a scene, character, and object a lot more vividly that without imagery, and creates visual engagement, which can make the reader feel the aimed emotion.

The third language technique I used was emotive language. For example: “These forests are full of life, and bring much joy and prosperity to those inside, just like the now destroyed forest once did, but gone forever in the logging destruction”. I used emotive language because it makes the reader feel the emotion I want them to feel, making an emotional response. It will make the reader feel the aimed emotion that I want them to feel.

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