Introductions

In Ted Conover's book, The Routes Of Man asserts that roads nowadays have a different effect than the one they had back then. Conover backs this claim up with examples of the way roads are used, for example Conover mentions that "The same roads that bring outside connection and knowledge to people starving...the same roads that carry cars symbolizing personal freedom" (Conover 3). Conover's purpose is to inform the audience of how he feels about the influence of roads in order to create consciousness about the outcome that roads have. This book and the book The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea have some similarities but mostly differences. They both use figurative meanings in book the books. For example how the devil's highway can lead a person to a different life. It is the same idea when reading The Routes Of Man because a person can take a different road in their life as well. The difference about these books is that one book uses figurative meaning most of the time which is The Devil's Highway. The idea of The Devil's Highway is to inform the reader of how he or she can take a journey into a different road, different lifestyle and he or she have never encountered. The author's tone is very mysterious because he leaves the reader thinking of what crime he is talking about and also who did it? A different question to ask the author would be about the title, is there a reason why it's called The Devil's Highway?

In the book A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is about getting lost not just physically but also in a person's mental stage. Solnit also wrote this book based on her own life experiences and her history as well. The idea of her book is to have the reader think about how he or she is getting lost in the world either mentally or physically. What her book has in common with the other two books is also the figurative meaning but A Field Guide to Getting Lost is mainly getting lost mentally in oneself. One of the characters in her book is a photographer who photographs life itself and also how the person getting lost finds out more about him or herself in a different way. The difference between these books would be the stories even though they have similar examples they are all telling different stories. They all also have different settings for each of the books it is not all in one place. All three authors do have the same way of getting the reader's attention, it is by the way they begin their introductions and also by the way it ends. They all leave the reader wanting to read more of the books to see what will happen next.