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Land of the Diesel Bear By: John McPhee Andrew Bartlett In the article “Land of the Diesel Bear” you have John McPhee explaining his second trip driving around America on a big rig truck with trucker Don Ainsworth. He goes into great detail about Ainsworth life working the roads and describes the challenges and emotions that take place. The article uses many industry words to explain the themes going on and especially during the conversations between McPhee and Ainsworth. This was done to create a mood so that people could get the feeling they were traveling in the truck with the two men. As I was reading this article at first I found it difficult to understand because it seems like the two men at some points are just talking in some made up language. But, once you get into the story you come to understand the meanings to the words they are using and the conversations seem more real because it’s being told in a first person form. With this way of speaking so specific I found new understandings to the feelings truckers have about cops, tolls, and the life style truckers have to live in. This made the piece of writing very heartfelt and emotional, making you want to read on so that you can learn more about Don Ainsworth life driving his big rig. This article is written differently than other articles because it is written more like a story then an article. The main points and information are not at the beginning of the article and it’s not obvious from the start what you’re supposed to learn by reading this. It starts off by describing the truck and a little back ground information about Ainsworth before switching over to conversations the two men had while driving and with other drivers on the radio. In the early parts Ainsworth talks about cops and tolls around New York State and how they are different and harsher than other police officers around the country and that he didn’t know why. Also, that’s why he was always in contact on his radio with other drivers because they were always trying to avoid the cops or let others drivers know where they are hiding. Another large section of the article is on all the different types of products that Ainsworth was pulling around and the time frame he had to deliver the goods. The men went over this in great detail because McPhee wanted to understand the pressures drivers have on them to get there products delivered on time because of the laws out now that specify how many hours a driver can drive before they must break and for how long. These breaks take time out from driving so drivers always need to account for this before they make deadlines. In the ending I found it clever that McPhee through a little paragraph in about new air systems that drivers can place in their trucks to keep them warm or cool, instead of idling their trucks for the same purpose creating extra pollution while drivers wait for their rest period to end. This just shows that John McPhee is concerned about many different aspects of world affairs and is able to express his views through many different types of writing even if you wouldn’t assume that a topic would work with another he is able to do it. code Type in the content of your page here.