What was extremely refreshing about Edward Abbey's book, "The Monkey Wrench Gang" was that it was a book with a actual storyline, along with dialect. This story is about a group of evironmentalist that try to stop drilling that is happening in their town. A man, George Hayduke, returns home from the war just to find that his town is being threatened from the oil industry; after this discovery, he attempts to save his land by destroying the inventions that hurt is land. This book mixes chaos with comedy. You can tell by reading this book that Edward Abbey has strong feelings against the destruction of natural land.
Each character in the book is described in detail. Not only are the characters described well, but the land that the men are trying to save is described very well too. For example, on page 101, "Most of the way he was able to walk on bare rock, on the smooth, slightly rolling surface of a stratum of sedimentary sandstone...Good solid well-knit stone, deposited, cemented and petrified some twenty-five million years ago..." There is another section of the book were Abbey describes the water: "...the rolling waters shone like hammered metal, like bronze lame, each facet reflecting mirror- fashion the blaze in the sky." The book may be seen as a comedy, but it is talking about a very serious issue: saving from the damage that human are doing to it and conserving it as well.
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