Rabbit Novella Carpenter

“We’ll have a cow… an’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens…and down the flat we’ll have a…little piece alfalfa …for the rabbits…an’ you get to tend the rabbits” (Steinbeck 53).

He does this to show what goes through his mind when he is trying to acquire food for himself, and he gives a broad insight on how difficult it is to find healthy, non-poisoned food to eat in an everyday life.

He confesses, “The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, 8 lbs. Of pork, or its equal in fish, and 1 bushel of corn meal” (6). His central idea is to truly explain oppression and the hardships he personally went through. The amount of food slaves have to sustain for a month is nowhere near the requirement for one’s daily nutrients. This leads to slaves being malnourished, which affects their ability to work.

As I said before, I grew up in a middle class family. This made it difficult for me to completely understand everything that he was talking about in the book. I never knew what it was like to have little or no food to eat. If we didn’t have anything to eat our family would go to a restaurant and eat or go shopping and get food.

Disgusted, she and her classmates stormed into the kitchen to find an explanation for the repulsive experience. She “knew exactly where the grits were kept from the time I had worked in the kitchen. I went straight to the pantry and saw that there was a big leak from the showers upstairs. The water was seeping right down onto the shelves” (Moody 256). Anne and her classmates boycotted the campus cafeteria and its food, refusing to yield until some sanitary fixes were implemented. The challenge here was finding other ways to stay fed. The students did not have enough money to last them more than a week or so, so eventually they all started back, one by one, to the cafeteria and its semi-sanitary food. Still repulsed, Anne refused to go back and began losing a lot of weight. She became so thin and hungry all the time that she resorted to writing her mother who brought her enough canned food to last the remainder of the semester. The challenge in staying fed with healthy, sanitary food was one which presented itself on a large scale for Anne at college and otherwise. Had she been unable to obtain food from her family, she may have starved to the point of fainting or even death. Overcoming this challenge was just about a matter of life or death for Anne.

Downe then talks about what was on the farmer's table. “ Puddines, pyes, and fruit of all kind” shows his enthusiasm and that America is a land of plenty to her since, “there was, no nothing but poverty before me.” Furthermore, he exaggerates how the food was, “everything that a person could wife”.

To begin with, fourteen years old Arnold describes his life while growing up in Wellpinit. He was malnourished. Arnold was a cartoonist, who often drew food and money and wished for it to be real. However, he realized the reality of being a reservation kid living with his family on the poor Spokane Indian Reservation. In the chapter, “Why Chicken Means So Much to Me,” he shares his formula about being poor. “Poverty is empty refrigerator plus empty stomach.” (Alexie 8). He described how sometimes his family missed a meal and slept on an empty stomach. Also, being hungry makes food taste better, especially when he hadn’t eaten for

After the baker takes all the rage thrown on him by Ann, he in return begs for forgiveness and gives the parents what they were lacking, that is food. The baker does all this even though he is alone and virtually makes contact with anybody.

She experiences a few turbulent weeks -- which will be used in order to verify her traditional views toward food -- before she becomes accustomed to its taste. This period of time is pivotal in establishing that Rowlandson and her Puritan brethren had a highly religious connection to food, both as they prepared it and eventually as they consumed it. In "the first week of being among [the natives], [she] hardly ate anything" (Rowlandson 79). This would certainly be expected -- the trauma of being kidnapped coupled with the huge difference in the taste of foods would surely dim the intensity of her appetite. Carole M. Counihan, as she examines the relationship between women and food, identifies food refusal as "a meaningful statement in all cultures and signifies the denial of relationship" (Counihan 101). She further argues that women "are identified with food [and] a dualistic and absolutist Judeo-Christian ideology that limits female autonomy and potential" (Counihan 110). Thus, it becomes important to examine how Rowlandson's relationship with food and her religious ideology may limit her power within the confines of a traditional Puritan meal. However, as she experiences the food of her captors, her refusal of their food signifies an attempt to distance herself from the Native American culture and perhaps to distance herself from the freedom allowed her in consuming their food without the

But besides the satisfying effect of fictional food, Hansel and Gretel already hints at a more negative approach to food. The siblings are tempted by the witch’s house consisting of bread and sweets. Especially evangelical discourses demanded dieting to resist the temptation of sins like gluttony or sloth (Labbe 94). Also the required dining etiquette of the increasing middle class, as well as the partly lethal food alterations of nineteenth century England, led to a rising number of didactic tales about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ food (ibid. 93). According to Daniel, the detailed and stimulating descriptions of food in children’s literature are a meant to seduce the child reader to “swallow the bitter pill of

My aunt was quite an old woman, and had been sick several years; in rains I have seen her moving from one part of the house to the other, and rolling her bedclothes about to try to keep dry- - everything would be dirty and muddy. I lived in the house with my aunt. My bed and bedstead consisted of a board wide enough to sleep on- - one end on a stool, the other placed near the fire. My pillow consisted of my jacket- - my covering was whatever I could get. My bedtick was the board itself. And this was the way the single men slept- - but we were comfortable in this way of sleeping, being used to it. I only remember having but one blanket from my owners up to the age of nineteen, when I ran away (Drew 45). These living conditions caused many to resort to immoral methods of survival, as Henderson relates: Our allowance was given weekly- - a peck of sifted corn meal, a dozen and a half herrings, two and a half pounds of pork. Some of the boys would eat this up in three days- - then they had to steal, or they could not perform their daily tasks. They would visit the hog- pen, sheep- pen, and granaries. I do not remember one slave but who stole some things- - they were driven to it as a matter of necessity. I myself did this- (Drew 48). Mealtime was far from a joyous occasion. In regard to cooking, sometimes many had to cook at one fire, and "before all could get to the fire…the overseers horn would sound: then they must go at any

This metaphorically suggests that the rabbits have already begun to construct their homes, and now nobody can stop them. Their forceful invasion into the native indigenous landscape is further emphasised by the dead lizard featured in the foreground, which has been brutally squashed with seemingly no remorse. Furthermore, the buildings in the background are entirely formed by jigsaw pieces. Thus Tan presents us with a visual allegory of the rabbit society as manipulative and un-relentless nature.

In “Young Hunger”, M.F.K Fisher uses food to express her lack of attention and love. For Fisher food represents comfort and helps her deal with her problems. Food is one of our three basic needs along with security and love. When Fisher writes about food she is actually writing about the hunger for love, being misunderstood by her godparents, and dealing with her problems with food. Fisher writes, “It was simply that [ her godparents] were old and sedentary and quite out of the habit of eating amply with younger people” (284).

Nervously, Junior thinks to himself about how he has to feed not only Cat, but Daria as well, he ponders “Eggs, I could scramble some eggs, but there was no bread for toast, no milk, no sugar for coffee” (Boyle 72) thus displaying how incapable he is of caring for a pet, a guest, and let alone himself.

One dark, misty night on Manor farm, the pigs were partying. They partied in the Jones house with Mr. Pilkington Napolean didn’t let any other animals into the house besides the pigs were so fat they couldn’t stand on two feet, they had to crawl. On the other hand the other animals were locked up in the barn and very mistreated; they were only fed leftover whiskey, milk, and apples.