Unchopping a Tree : Summary and Exercises
Unchopping a Tree [A Chopped Tree] 1. Introduction : This essay is against deforestation. It wants to give us a message that if we can not unchop a tree, it is better not to chop down a tree. Chopping down a tree is so easy. But no body considers how to put back together a tree that has been felled (cut down). The writer here provides a step by step instructions to reconstruct a tree that has been cut down. But as we start following his steps, we find it just imp0ossible to do the job. It is a very good example of 'pseudo-directive essay' . It means the speaker giving directions of doing some job, but when actually one wants to follow the given directions, s/he finds it to be impossible to follow the directions. So such essays have a deeper meaning than their surface meaning. Exactly the same happens in this essay. The writer has given directions of unchopping a tree, but it is impossible to follow the given directions. So the essay has another message for the readers...