Although Sinclair’s investigation tells a story of the toll the meatpacking industry took on families nearly a hundred years ago, he still offers insight into the deceiving side of America’s food corruptions. Both writers brilliantly offer realization and awareness in their books that will benefit anyone who reads them to make better decisions daily. The description of the factory farming slaughterhouses in both books is enough to send chills down almost anyone’s spine; The Jungle opens with the cruel tactics, yet Fast Food Nation did not mention the slaughterhouses until midway. As Jurgis and his family tour the packinghouse where he will be working as a shoveler,(shoveling blood and guts) they first see what seems to be millions of cows. There are rail yards that carry the cattle to the slaughterhouse where the mechanics of the process are awe-inspiring.
Marty knew that Judd Travers abused his dogs because he once saw a dog, on his porch, with a bullet in its head. So Marty decides to take matters into his own hands. Marty made a dog house for Shiloh and took care of Shiloh without
M During breakfast Jim Casy is asked by the “granma”, who represents the pious, to give a prayer. But instead of a traditional prayer, Jim decides to speak out his mind and give his own theory, realisation about what it is to be “holy” : “I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing. An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way, kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’. Fella like that bust the holi-ness. But when they’re all workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang—that’s right, that’s holy.” (l29-35 p.85) By those words Jim Casy explains that mankind is holy in itself, that we are great only when we work together as one, that mankind’s greatness isn’t about what it prays to God but what it does with what’s around him.
Susana Cuellar Mrs. Lyday English 101 17 October 2012 “Why I Hunt” In the story “Why I Hunt” readers have a chance to get a passionate hunter’s perspective in what hunting is like. Rick Bass shares his story of an unplanned immigration west to the Yaak valley next to the Kootenai National Forest with his wife. The immigration near this well resourced forest obligated Bass to become more involved in hunting. In the story he helps readers understand how he feels as he hunts in a natural forest rich with a variety of prey. In “Why I Hunt” Rick Bass emphasizes his deep love for hunting and argues that it is an enjoyable activity that helps develop a type of imagination that is almost impossible for non-hunters to obtain.
The rabbit is an important character because he represents a giving person, while the ram represents the careless person. The significance of this story would be that people shouldn’t be so careless. We all have boundaries that need to be followed if not there will be consequences. (Welker Glenn) B. An important event in “The Jaguar and the Deer” is when the jaguar and the deer first find out they have been helping each other build the same home and still
Some hunters say that they can smell you from a mile away. Many hunters wear all kinds of cover scents while hunting, such as raccoon urine, fox urine, also buck and doe urine. Most hunters put the scent on their boots or on leaves around them. White-tailed deer are still a very shy and cautious animal. Running and sharp senses are their main defense (Zwaschka 11).
Is George justified in killing Lennie? John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a short novel about two friends, quick-witted George and dim-witted Lennie. (ef fram kemur af hverju þeir eru samtvinnaðir væri got að koma því að) They are both gauchos moving together from ranch to ranch looking for work but Lennie’s screwups cause them to be on the run consistently. They have a dream about a little farm of their own where they can reap their own harvest and keep rabbits and that’s what keeps them going in a hard life, although it is pretty obvious these are just pipe dreams. The story happens mainly at a ranch nearby the Salinas River in the state of California.
The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s. People survived off of beans, rice, corn, and milk. Many slaughtered the cattle for meat because there was no market. All around the world people were living in horrible living conditions and there were not many jobs for those in need. Over 25% of people were unemployed and houses were being foreclosed
In the end you still get the same framework as you would from reading, but you also get to see how it physically affects them. Also when the “owners” are telling the angry tenants that the bank or the “monster” owns the land and that there’s nothing they can do about it you can really see how much the owners don’t care about these farmers in the movie. You can see how it doesn’t phase them at all it’s just another day at the office, so to speak, but what they don’t realize is that
The families would work hard and do well and then a bad year would come and so the crop failed. The families had to borrow a little money form the banks so they could get back on their feet. Then, another poor crop, and the families have to eat so they borrow a little more money from the banks. Soon without knowing what has happened the families no longer own their land, they are tenants. The farm to pay back their debts to the bank.