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Summary Of Why Leaves Turn Color In The Fall By Diane Ackerman

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My response to the story “Why Leaves Turn Color in the fall” by Diane Ackermans, is that it made me feel emotional the way the author expressed life in a metaphor. For example, the author uses an imprint of a leaf in a fossil stone to show evidence of previous life on Earth. The fossil stone addresses the life cycle. Life persists on although plants, animals, and people “perish.” A thing that stood out to me was that the author uses nature’s seasons to relate to the life cycle of human beings. I believe the author’s purpose on describing the way that leaves change colors and fall off trees in autumn is to compare to how the body changes in order to reach death; one day the leaves are colorful and vibrant, and the next day they wither and die.

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