The Wild Ways of Grammatical Errors

THE WILD WAYS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS



The Wild Ways of Nature by Rohan Campbell is a piece of literature that many a reader has difficulty understanding, both grammatically and intellectually. While being both immensely creative and strangely confusing, this work captures the audience as well as becomes disinteresting. After being published in 1996, this work has been found to be unlike any that came before or after it. The grammatical errors and misspellings throughout the piece are both surprising and distracting to the reader, and can ultimately lose the interest of the audience. In contrast, these same errors also shape the essay and give it an undeniable character. It is unclear if these mistakes were created intentionally; regardless of intent, the errors undeniably impact the audience. If these mistakes were corrected, the essay would be much more powerful and the reader would be able to focus on what the author is trying to express, which is the beauty and mystery of nature.
The essay’s flaws and mistakes make the work incredibly unique, but also disconcerting. These simple mistakes give the work character and originality, which is something that many experienced writers struggle to attain. Unfortunately, these traits also tend to give the essay a lack of sophistication. The author begins to confuse the audience with tense changes when he says, “But as the night fall the cloud cover the land with dark cold winds the smell of the morning flowers is gon til tomorrow…” (Campbell 1). The lack of consistency in tense and the run-on sentences lose the reader’s train of thought when trying to follow the story. The single correct sentence, “These are the wild ways of nature” (Campbell 1) is almost completely lost in a mountain of other miniscule mistakes, and is easily overlooked. The audience is also distracted by multiple misspellings, such as “worm” instead of warm and “feare” instead of fear. These errors are not as necessary to the originality of...