Analyze one short story from Edward Abbey's nonfiction work Desert Solitairewith reference to author's point, style, tone, theme. Discuss how the story...

According to 's Introduction to , the stories, which is a term
loosely used in this work, are drawn from the journals he kept during his months as a park
ranger in Utah. He specifies that he believes that "simple fact" provides truth and
"a kind of poetry," so Abbey's descriptions aren't literary descriptions
built from literary style to create a point, theme, ,
mood etc., they are descriptions of "simple fact" that have
literary merit and qualities. As a consequence, when Abbey writes "lavender clouds,"
he means clouds that are lavender--in fact.

This is not to say that Abbey's
creative mind hadn't seen below the surface and found metaphor and meaning and theme within the
experience of "simple fact" that he is telling, but it is to say that he intends for
his words--his descriptions, his experiences, his characterizations of people then around
him--to be taken as fact and truth and, moreover, as the poetry of fact and truth.

On the topic of author intention,...