Anja knows she should be grateful for the man in the white lab taking her blood ever so carefully, for lowering himself to touch her dirty skin, but she’s so hungry that she can’t think of anything else. Suddenly, the man pushes her off the bed, and Anja lands with a terrified yelp. There’s a plate in front of her though, shaking slightly from the distant bombing. A plate of burgers piled high, buns green and fuzzy with mold, meat bloody and rotten and writhing with hundreds of maggots and shining metallic winking at her with tiny razor blades and needles too many to pick out, cheese black and slimy, ketchup white with some unknown substance she just knows is poison. Her mouth waters. “Stay,” The woman who found her and took her prisoner orders. Anja looks up at her, betrayed. “Hungry,” she whines. The woman laughs, high and cold. “We’ll let you eat, Anja. We’re not as cruel as our enemy. But if you wait, we’ll remove that horrible food and give you a nice, proper meal,” the devil of a woman offers. …show more content…
The food alone will sicken her for days, the sharps will cut her throat and get stuck in her lungs and make her stomach bleed and they won’t heal her for months because it’s her own fault that she’s injured, her own fault she’s a deserter, and she should know better by now than to ingest a poison they haven’t even identified for her. She’s so hungry though, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll even let her eat by the end of it. The woman doesn’t lie, but she tells a hell of a lot of half-truths, and she can already hear the woman’s honey-thick voice saying, “I said we’d let you eat, Anja. I didn’t say when. Enemies of the Crown don’t get
“Stop! Can you not kill me for now? I want to be dead on a full stomach. I just need ten minutes to eat.” Phil Keagan glances at you, overflowing with hate, but he draws back the machete.
So it meant a lot to Mattie when he didn 't keep his promise. So as revenge Mattie spits into his food. “Run all you want, Master. God knows and I know: you done wrong this day and Satan is going to put you on the fire like you was pork ribs at a barbecue. (As Mattie spoons mashed potatoes from a pot into a serving bowl, she spits into the potatoes several times, then stirs them again.
On the beginning of the XX century, the meatpacking industry was unregulated and incredibly dangerous. Simple habits, such as washing the hands and the use of hairnets were unknown. This, together with other unhealthy practices, contaminated the resultant meat with dirt, human hair and sweat. However, this was not the only issue concerning that industry. In the end, the meat appropriate for intake would be mixed with ruined meat and chemicals, as the author illustrates, “There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption” (Sinclair
The floors of the factory and the employees are covered in blood all day. Also, during the spring and summer months the meat factories get awfully warm. (Sinclair, 398) Employees are surrounded by warm spoiled meat, which can cause diseases in the workers and the consumers. Workers did not even have a place to wash
Feel two bodies crash to the floor, and hear a woman's voice wail in pain. And even though it’s so quiet, even twenty feet away, I know the sound of air moving aside as a fist comes down, again and again. ”(45) This description of Free Lunch shows that violence can get out of hand and really hurt someone, mentally and
In doing so, Sinclair reveals how witnessing the misery and suffering of others can lead to compassion and empathy. In the early 1900s, many employees of Chicago’s meatpacking industry were exposed to horrifying working conditions. The “stench” of “hot blood” from the slaughtered livestock “was enough to knock a man over,” and those who “worked on the killing beds would … reek with foulness” (26). According to Sinclair, “there was no such thing as keeping decent,” and during the summer, swarms of flies “would rush [into houses] as if a storm … were driving them,” attracted to the slaughterhouse and nearby dumps (27). The description of a repulsive “stench” so overpowering, it could “knock a man over,” suggests feelings of helplessness and extreme disgust, while the image of hundreds of flies swarming around homes suggests filthiness and inadequate sanitation because flies are often associated with disease and decay (26).
Cortez places his hand underneath Aubrie’s chin, lifting it to look into her soft chocolate eyes. The tears in her eyes pour out like the ocean’s morning tide, soft but tedious. Aubrie sits up pulling away from his grip. “Yea I’m- no I’m fine. Just feel a little sick to my stomach.”
The opinions of the reader could be altered once their heart is open to the author. Additionally, Food, Inc. emphasizes the loss of a young boy due to a previously nonexistent disease created by the food industry (Kenner 31:22). This shows the audience the lack of remorse the industry feels towards the child’s death and tugs at the viewer’s heartstrings, pleading for them to take action. The story of Kevin, the young boy who died of E. coli, was only added to inflict hurt into the audience’s heart, making pathos the only reason the story was
1. Why do you think this poem was paired with this photo and article from The Times? What do the three have in common? How well do you think they work together? a. I think this poem was paired with this photo and article because they all relate to one another.
She wants him to escape with her to Fort Mose. Then he tells her, "I will take no more risks. I have found a woman here-a good woman. She keeps me warm at night, and she carries no dreams in her heart. She is safe.”
Many workers were sick because the working area was filthy, they had to eat their lunch beside the pig that they are cutting (“Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle…”). The Jungle also exposed what’s really inside the canned meat the Chicago meat-packing industry processes. Many did not know that the meat were piled up on the floor before processing the meat in cans, the floor were covered by urine, sputum and even dead rodents (“Upton Sinclair’s The
Poetry is a type of literary work where authors can express their views on feelings, life or something they feel strongly about. Mark Strand and Larry Levis used poems to express their views on poetry. Emotions can be portrayed in a positive way, such as the happiness that is expressed in “Eating Poetry” by Strand, or in a negative way, such as the sad and depressing tone that is conveyed in “The Poem You Asked For” by Levis. Through characterization, imagery and point of view, the authors of these poems made the readers see poetry from different perspectives and emotions. Characterization is used in poetry to help the author bring to life or describe one of the main focuses of their writing, in this case, poetry.
(P472) “The girl’s mouth wandered on even if her body was now still.”
Back to the evil queen point of view, I was on my way to the cottage and I had a apple in my hand it was indeed poisonous. When I tried to give her the apple she refused. So to show her it was nothing wrong with the apple I ate a piece (not the poisonous side) and give it to her she took
Just show me; but it comes naturally. I left the first, but I do so the second. I have lived a life. Joseph as you killed; I'm going to sing it is only life. You only; My Favourite and press on.