Summary Of “A Gardener’s Guide To Sex, Polit....."

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Summary of Michael Pollan’s article “A Gardener’s Guide to Sex, Politics and Class War Michael Pollan’s starts off his article in a bookstore, in which he states that “[…], but I bet there are many of us who choose their pastimes on the basis of the accompanying literature.” By saying this in the article, Pollan is implying that most humans use books to choose their pastimes. Pollan then finds the bookstore’s shelf on gardening books. He states that “[…]long and unexpectedly lively shelf of garden writing that led me deep into the garden world.” By stating this in his article, Pollan is basically saying that his local bookstore’s extensive and lively lineup of books about gardening is what got him interested in gardening so deeply. Pollan then continues his article by talking about some of the writers of nature, for the most part, they are women. Pollan then goes into the problems of gardening as a genre of literature. He stated in the article, “Yet the deeper I got into gardening, the more problematic, and less charming, I found the limitations of the genre to be. […]I was getting a lot of British advice and it simply didn’t apply to my patch of ground […]. […]. Yet most of the books on the garden shelf, even those written by Americans, continue to hold up the traditional border as gardening’s highest achievements […].” Pollan then talks about how most authors on the gardening subject neglected to write about basic gardening operations such as digging or planting, “Everybody seemed to jump right from wintertime sketches and plans to the glorious blooms of July.” Pollan then moves into talking about some of the problems that he was running into with his garden, “[…], there turned out to be a lot going on in my garden that the garden books never addressed. […], I found I spent most of my time and energy in the garden facing down the oncoming forest, which, […],

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