Analysis Of 'What Are People For?' By Wendell Berry

Berry’s father had died when he was younger, and he dropped of school in middle school. He never did talk much about his mother,” (citation). said Mr. Wood, one of a number of people to say that Berry and his mother not very close. “For the circumstances he was raised in, he was a good kid… He was raised on the street… I tried to help the kid because I felt sorry for him, although I had to let him go because he was not dependable.”

(Berry 13-14) He makes strong assertions and is starting a fight against essentially humanity itself but stands tall. He fights his war in hopes that more people rally to his side to even them. In one of the most unique kinds of war, Wendell Berry struggles and works to change the overwhelming tides. His war is definitively unique in the two very different opposing sides that exist within

In a popular rallying song of the 1890s called “The Farmer Is the Man”, westerners declared that “The middleman’s the one who gets it all / ... They forget that it’s the farmer who feeds them all,” (Doc H). Farmers viewed themselves as invaluable to American society; though the “middleman” is the person who made the most profit, it was often at the expense of farmers, who saw themselves as the great providers. This common outrage shared by farmers caused them to unite with one another in order to advance their common interests.

She goes paragraph by paragraph comparing the different worlds of food production, proving her point that not all meat is created equal. She goes through each of the three greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides, which are a result of food production. She provides you a comparison of how each method impacts the environment in terms of greenhouse emissions and the level of extremity respectively. “Niman claims that industrial farming produces markedly more carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides than traditional farming and ranching” (173). She manages to keep the reader involved by keeping each comparison short and to the point.

He isn’t targeting a specific group to be his audience, he is targeting everyone because he believes that everyone has to contribute in order to help the cause. The purpose of this essay is for it to be a call to action to fix a problem we created and for people to join together to help protect the environment and respect it. The basis for Berry’s rhetoric is that Berry and his family have lived on their land for 200 years and have been the caretakers of the land and that is why he believes that we need to stand together and take care of our Earth. Berry’s argument is a product of his audience

The point of prosperity is to not let the world get so horrible that people would want to die in the first place for the “Soylent Green” scenario. So while these doomsday activists see this ghastly vision of the future, they fail to learn the real

The three essays assigned this week had several common threads running through them. The strongest core theme is the rapid change in the food cycle in America and the vast changes that have taken place in the way by which we grow, produce, and process the food that average Americans eat. The food we eat now is drastically different from what our grandparents grew up eating and the three essays each examine that in a different way. Another theme is the loss of knowledge by the average consumer about where their food comes from, what it is composed of, and what, if any, danger it might pose to them. “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear” by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele is a harsh look at the realities of food production in a country where large corporations, like Monsanto, have been allowed to exploit laws and loopholes to bend farmers and consumers to their

In this, Crow states that Capote’s novel is intended to criticize the glorified portrayal of rural life as safe and secure; in other words, Capote criticizes the American Dream, and the idea that wealth and prosperity will

Farmers in the West, both before and as the Depression hit, frivolously worked to farm their land and produce as much agriculture as possible, aiming to fulfil their duty as a “proper” American citizen in fulfilling their role as a hard and productive worker. The ideas of hard work ultimately led to over-working the American farmland in the western United States. As the overworked land was uprooted, displacing these farmers, the ideas of a strenuous American work ethic continued to remain in the minds of these

“An Entrance to the Woods” is an essay by Wendell Berry about the serenity and importance of nature in his life. In this essay, the author uses tone shifts from dark to light to convey his idea of finding rebirth and rejuvenation through nature. In the beginning of the essay, Berry has left civilization for the first time in a while, and finds himself missing human company and feeling “inexplicably sad” (671). This feeling of sadness is in part from the woods itself, and partly due to Berry leaving the hustle and bustle of normal life in the cities, and the violent change from constant noise to silence causes him to feel lonely in the woods. As a result of feeling alone in the woods, the tone of the essay is dark and brooding, as seen through Berry’s somber diction and mood, as seen on page 671: “And then a heavy feeling of melancholy and lonesomeness comes over me.

Michael Pollan’s alternative to Factory farming has given a huge insight into a better ethics on food. In “The Animals: Practicing Complexity” Michael Pollan writes about a polyface farm and how it works. The goal of a polyface farm is to emotionally, economically, and environmentally enhance agriculture. Everything on a polyface farm has the potential to be helpful to something else on the farm. Pollan states “The chicken feed not only feeds the broilers but, transformed into chicken crap, feeds the grass that feeds the cows that, as I was about to see, feeds the pigs and the laying hens” (Pollan 345).

The central idea of the poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry is that although many injustices plague the world, it is good to live in the present for a moment and have hope for peace. Berry describes how he finds peace as, “When despair for the world grows in me… I come into the peace of the wild things… for a time I rest in the grace of the world, and I am free.” When Berry’s worries become too much to handle, he likes to be in nature because nature doesn’t worry about things like people. He takes a second to go out into nature and surround himself it’s peace so he can be in the present, if only just for a second, and not worry about the injustices in the world. Through this the reader will understand that it’s important to

John Steinbeck has a style of writing unparalleled in history and in the modern world. In the same way, his philosophies are also unparalleled, with his focus in socialism not extending to communism or abnegation of spiritualism. His ideal world is utopian, holding the dust bowl migrant at the same level as the yeoman farmer was held in Jeffersonian times. In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck Steinbeck, who posses impregnable technique, conveys his message of a group working tirelessly for the betterment of the community.

During the Great Depression, many people were desperate for a job, food, shelter, and security, all of which are standards expected in the modern world. However, in the midst of an economic crisis, the people who had stability despised those who could not achieve a steady way of life. Farmers who hoarded the food that could keep people alive would not help those in need. By selfishly withholding aid, the farmers failed humanity in a way, “that topples all our success,” showing that what they did was not right (Steinbeck 349). When faced with the injustice of people being too poor to afford what they need to survive, those who had resources were morally obligated to help feed those

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. developed his argument through his speech. He has set an speech out to everyone, so everyone can be /or will be treated equally, fairly. Martin Luther King to contribute a great deal to the success of the civil rights movement. He wanted his idea to come true, so he did everything he could do for it to happen. As to him proving his point to make people believe or go with his idea.