What specific details stay in your mind? Why? How do these small details lead to larger ideas?
When Muir talks about why we feel that these alligators are so evil, stuck in my mind the most. This stuck the most in my mind because he describes the fact that why do we feel that this animal are so evil. What make them so evil? Because they are enemies of man make them devil creature. This becomes bigger as he describes the fact that some animals only live in certain areas else they will die of the cold/ hot area. They then bring up the point that when we go to an unknown area and become sick we blame it on some evil. What is the difference? Why is the world created for man and no others? Aren't alligators children of God too?
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I liked the questions you were thinking about. From what I gather in his writing, Muir states how we reject the unknown and describe it as evil. I think we do this not because we don't think that this perceived 'evilness' doesn't deserve a place on earth but more because we simply need an explanation. Banishing it to the land of supernatural, seems to be the best option in most things however unfair it seems.
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