question 3

Anna Aycock

Question number 3

In this book, Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams shows us a lot of how conservationists act, as we see it as these people being a little bit crazy in some aspects. They are just so involved in their work that they forget about dealing with people almost. When Adams is talking to Carl Jones you can tell he is very strange in their first conversation when he sees their video camera, “ ‘Turn it on, quick, turn it on!’ we turned it on. ‘I really hate media people!’ he boomed at it. ‘Did you get that? Do you think it’ll come out all right?’” (182). The reader understands that he is a very strange man. Then he says that conservationists are , “like surgeons working just behind the front line” (183). Douglas makes these people sound very intense like they are working in a life and death situation. Which is true in many aspects they may not be fighting for the lives of humans but they are fighting for the lives of animals who are about to go extinct. He also says that they are , “ often exhausted by the demands that their caring” (183). When he characterizes conservationists like this it makes them sound like they are extremely noble people who are fighting for the good in the world and will not back down. Adams does this to help us understand that these people have a very difficult job; they have to fight for money so they can keep doing their job, and they have to fight for the animals themselves. You have to understand the hardships that these people go through on a day to day basis that we do not even understand as people who do not see these animals. Without the help of conservationists we would have no idea that these species of animals are going extinct.