Finding Life Naturally - assignment 3/23

I found Buffalo for the Broken Heart very intriguing to read. Dan O’Brien did a fantastic job of telling the beginning of the story and to fill the reader in with all the important details. At first, his style of telling the story can be hard to follow. He seemed to jump around a lot, but as I read it came apparent that every piece of his story would fit together perfectly by the end of the chapter. It was very interesting to learn about the Great Plains’ history of the buffalo. I did not know buffalo had such an impact in shaping the prairies. Through natural selection and evolution, the buffalo in effect dictated the growth of the plains. Another aspect of O’Brien’s writing I liked was how he would say something that had a deeper meaning. An example of this was, “I liked where I’d found myself and didn’t want to fall back through the looking glass.” Statements like this evoke his readers to think beyond the face value of his writing.