Response to the novel ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ by Edward Abbey
As I was reading the first couple of chapter of this novel I began to think how hypercritical and masculine it is. Reading the quick summery on the back of the book overly justifies the story, makes it seem as if this book is a bible for extreme activist. However to me it seems to be a fantasy for the writer, something that would be said with harsh angry words. I thought as I read ‘Is this really how people think?’ do they feel like people are truly messing with how beautiful nature is? And I was angry when one of the characters defends his right to dump beer cans on the side of a road. In the end the book so far hasn’t raised any serious questions for me. I just take it like it is a fiction novel about a bunch of people who think their right.
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