Descriptive Essay On The Slaughter House

Murder, one of the worst crimes a human could commit, is not taken lightly and most times the primary suspect is a male. In the 2 stories, “Lamb of the Slaughter”, and “The Landlady”, the reader learns just how murderous man’s counterpart can be. Roald Dahl, the author of these 2 stories, wrote “Lamb of the Slaughter” from the perspective of Mary Malony a loving housewife who gets terrible news, and wrote“The Landlady” from the perspective of Billy Weaver, a 17 year old businessman who stumbles across a Bed and Breakfast run by our next “Mistress of Death”. The reader will learn that even though these 2 stories are different in many ways, they still have plenty of similarities.

Being confronted with the reality of a desensitised society advances one’s self to a heightened awareness of that reality. ‘The Meatworks’ exhibits this idea through the disregard for non-human life as seen when directly exploiting pigs to earn a living. The enjambment Gray employs within “But I settled for one of the lowest paid jobs, making mince, the furthest end from those bellowing, sloppy yards. Outside the pigs fear”. Along with first person and high modality expresses how both physically and mentally uncomfortable the persona is with being more involved with the slaughter, revealing his standpoint as a humanist, empathising with the pigs. Gray delves further into this empathy, directly describing the result of desensitisation in “arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not… using a

Discoveries can be confronting and provocative. From this, we can be exposed to disturbing images that make us question our societal values. In ‘The Meatworks’, Gray quickly establishes this unwelcoming nature of discoveries through the explicitly derogatory description of the abattoirs processes and it’s accompanied workers. This is evident through the use of provocative imagery in “arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not”. From this depiction, we are exposed to the merciless treatment of the of the +pigs as they lose their identity. The fact that the machine never stops grinding whether there is meat in there or not denotes such a sense of insensitivity towards the process, causing the reader to feel distressed and guilty of the slaughter.  A degree of insensitivity is also presented to the reader through the recurring motif of blood, an idea that is central to the poem. “Stench of blood…chomping

He visited “a slaughterhouse somewhere in the High Plains” to actually see what happens inside slaughter houses and to interview employees of the slaughter house (17). He interviewed multiple people who all told him “they treat us like animals” implying more happenings that the general public does not know about, further supporting Schlosser’s claims regarding the inhumane conditions of slaughter houses compared to those of other factories (20). During his visit, he observed employees in close proximity with murder weapons risking their lives to make a trivial salary. Schlosser later recounts the horrid state of the factory to emphasize the severely inhumane circumstances people across the country experience every day, including but not limited to, serious injuries and in some cases, death, in order to evoke emotion from the audience. Not only do a myriad of injuries occur in slaughterhouses daily, but “the death rate.

Afterward, Schlosser moves to provide further evidence for his claim of how slaughterhouses are dangerous to employees by providing statistics. After describing the state of these workers and what occurs daily, Schlosser moves the issue to imply this issue is nationwide “...three times higher than the rate in a typical American factory” (18). The exploitive nature of workers in slaughterhouses is a problem which affects the entire nation and is deemed prevalent every day. Concluding the chapter, Schlosser moves from statistics to providing firsthand accounts of workers. Schlosser uses multiple disturbing narratives from Kenny Dobbins and the mention of him going back to work after his injuries is deemed prevalent in all of his accounts “...two weeks in the hospital, then went back” (21).

When describing the slaughterhouse he visits, he provides valuable background knowledge by saying, “One night I visit a slaughterhouse somewhere in the High Plains. The slaughterhouse is one of the nation's largest. About five thousand head of cattle enter it every day, single file, and leave in a different form”(1-7). The sentences are blunt and drastically minimize the amount of time spent describing irrelevant details. By excluding the extra details, Schlosser helps the reader focus on the importance of the upcoming discussion regarding the meat industry. The short phrases also create an intense feeling for the audience, which culminates in Schlosser’s claim that the meat packing industry is a “world that's been deliberately hidden”(89-90). The induced sense of urgency augments Schlosser’s call to action and the reader feels compelled to read further and is thus drawn deeper into the

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled... because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.”(Chapter 1). World War II, years of war that saw young men, or children, go into battle, many never to return. A massacre that will leave a scar on this earth that will never truly heal. Kurt Vonnegut attempts to capture the hostility of this war, which he was a part of, in “Slaughterhouse-five”. A primary theme of the novel is war is cruel and childish. Vonnegut does not glorify war or make anyone sound heroic, he describes war as undisciplined and a cataclysm for everyone involved. There were victims on all sides of the battlefield, no one was a true winner, and it all could have been avoided if people could stand to work things out

In “The Way of All Flesh” the author Ted Conover describes his experience working as an undercover USDA inspector in a meat packing plant. He shows how extremely grotesque the industry really is by providing numerous examples on the health and treatment of animals, the conditions of the meat, and the health and treatment of the employees. Conover shows the reader what it is really like in the slaughterhouse by using descriptive language. Throughout the article Conover brings up the treatment and the conditions the animals are put in. Conover supports his arguments by appealing to the reader’s emotions, by making the readers feel sympathetic for both the animals and workers.

Roald Dahl has published several novels and nearly 50 short stories all of which, without exemption, are fascinating, intriguing and bizarre to say the least. One of Dahl's more famous stories is "Lamb to the Slaughter".

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Eric Blair wrote “The Animal Farm” during 1945, which he writes about a dystopian society with animals. He makes connections to real world problems throughout the story. He refers to animals being human by making connections by forming a government, because it's in human nature to form any type of government. In this case, the animals form a democracy from the commandments they put in their constitution; with all the corruption it mimics a communist government. The corruption deals with the leaders taking advantage of the commandments by overriding them while the other animals have to obey them. The main characters were Napoleon, Snowball, Boxer, and Squealer which can be connected to real world leading figures. The author also put in

Two individuals may seem similar in appearance and outward self but it’s the inner character and diverse qualities of a person that distinguishes between two people. Many have the notion to think that since two people have the same outward identity then both will get along and be the best of friends, however, this is where the dilemma arises. George Orwell, an author of Animal Farm writes a tale about two pigs by the name of Snowball and Napoleon and how their bond destroys through disagreements and jealously towards each other which later on builds an eruption on the farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution that occurred between 1905 and lasted up to 1917 due to the controversies that occurred between the Bolsheviks

Animal Farm is about a lot of animal that's trying to protect thyself from humans which is they enemies and they trying to figure out who going to be the leader. Czar Nicholas ii was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. Born in 1868, he succeeded to the russian throne upon the death of his father, czar alexander iii in november 1894. That same month, the new czar married alexandra a german-born princess who came to have great influence over her husband.

As you start reading this essay create a new tab and follow this link http://www.adaptt.org/killcounter.html, return to this tab after finishing the essay. Most people do not know what actually occurs in a slaughterhouse because it is

What are currently the poor conditions for animals in the American slaughterhouses, what are the causes of these conditions, and what are the best methods for preventing slaughterhouse cruelty?