Week 12 Reading (Ecology of a Craker Childhood)

I really enjoyed the beginning information about the tortoises. It was not only exactly the kind of stuff I'm interested in, but also a way to get the attention and interest of the audience through a personal experience of the author. It set the scene and tone well so when the author got into the issues of the junkyard it was relatable. I've never thought of a junkyard in ecological term, surprisingly for me, so this was quite interesting and relating the junkyard to the natural environment made the author's hopes to restore that natural environment more practical. If a junkyard is just part of the environment, it can be changed just like the natural environment itself. I idn't find the poem or whatever that was to be very effective or really do anything at all for the piece, but I did enjoy hearing things through the author's brother's words as well.