The Brown Wasps by Loren Eiseley

The Brown Wasps by Loren Eiseley shows that humans and animals act in some similar ways. He says that humans and animals cling to the things they know very strongly. Sometimes they even act as if nothing even changed. Humans and animals tend to want to return to things that are familiar to them, as they grow older. Eiseley shows how humans and animals try to cling or recreate an important or favorite place. Some examples are the old men, the brown wasps, the mice, the pigeons, the blind man, and even Eiseley.

Eiseley recalls his boyhood home in Nebraska. He recalls how the train stations used to be. In addition, he remembers how all the pigeons would fly around and how all the waiting people boarding the trains would feed them. He realizes he is getting older and older everyday. He once grew a tree with his father and he acts like it’s been there the whole time. Sixty years later he realizes that the tree that he had been imagining his whole l

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One of the mice lives in one of the author’s potted plants. They both just cannot let their favorite place go. The old men knew that the train stations were being torn down, but they refused to give it up. The author relates how the