Rebank Analysis

The farm worker explains that they work in exchange for food and shelter and do not seek work elsewhere for fear of being arrested. Adam communicates the different reality for Australian laborers stating “guys laboring have got a pay check to go to, to get the luxuries in life”. It is a moment of dialogic communication, where each party familiar with their own position, listens to each other and exchanges their differing realities. An ethical element exists in this conversation. For “in ethical communication, we recognize that persons, narrative ground, and the historical situation shape, guide and restrain our actions” (p. 94). Both individuals gained knowledge from the presence of dialogue. It is difficult to predict how sharing alternate perspectives may impact another. Adam may now possess a deeper appreciation for his charmed life. Moreover, the illegal farm worker may have a newfound dedication to his dream of achieving such fortune conditions for himself and his family. Either way, much can be learned when seeing life through a different

This chapter has a claim that states season is important. The season says a lot about how characters are feeling and how their lives are during that particular time. In summer, Animal Farm the animals spend a laborious and long amounts of time harvesting in the fields. The clever pigs think of ways for the animals to use the humans’ tools, and every animal participates in the work, each according to his capacity (besides the pigs of course). The resulting harvest exceeds any that the farm has ever known. So, summer is a good (hard, but good) season for the animals. “ How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped. Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. As for the horses, they knew every inch of the field, and in fact understood the business of mowing and raking far better than Jones and his men had ever done. The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the

Bronson Alcott and his partner, Charles Lane, arrived at Fruitlands on June 1, 1843, in hope to establish a utopian community modeled on the ideas of the Transcendentalist movement. Both men anticipated that Fruitland would become a haven from prosecution and judgment. Hence, life in Fruitlands consisted with many strict rules and the many “basic principle of the farm” to accomplish and create an ascetic way of life including no trading with the outside world and living solely off the land (125). Yet, the most important principle was that “the people who lived there would cause no avoidable harm to man or beast” (125). The idea that influence not only the community farming techniques but also wardrobe, diet, and daily life. Farming was an adversity, especially to Bronson, “initial hope had been to use no animal labor,” became drudgery when tried to plant crops

The metaphor of the human being as a waste product allows Sinclair to tap into the guilt feelings of his audience.  At times, the book reminds one of those late-night TV solicitations for funds for third-world children.  What is interesting is that this is not particularly a good novel to read; the writing is dogmatic and often polemical.  Rather than trying to convince with reason and subtlety, Sinclair is shoving a point of view down the throats of those watching.  Still, this brutal approach is the only way to make an impression on an audience so far removed from the reality depicted in the novel.  Such an approach draws on the Catholic/Jewish/universal guilt that is plied by Sinclair like a preacher through the meat market of industrial life.  Rudkus comes into the novel full of hope and the reader must identify with his hopes and dreams.  Yet these dreams are not exactly fodder for a successful novel, if Rudkus was to find his American Dream.  The dream he finds is as rotten as the sausage that he processes, as is the American Dream in the socialist mindset of Sinclair.

They suffer the anguish of losing their farms and their homes, of being forced to move endlessly and painfully in search of work on someone else's land. The anguish caused by sudden change in land ownership is a major aspect of the novel.

During the course of The Jungle, Sinclair’s characters are demonstrative of the immigrant factory labourers, collectively, most notably through Jurgis Rudkus, the main character in Sinclair’s The Jungle. Following the promise of the American Dream, Jurgis travels to America in 1906 with his father, his wife-to-be and her family in pursuit of happiness and freedom. Jurgis can be described as “the sort of man the bosses like to get hold of” (23), with a strong immigrant work ethic and ambition to achieve success in America simply through hard work. This was a belief that Sinclair characterized into Jurgis, which made apparent to the reader that working hard shall warrant financial rewards under a capitalist supremacy, “I will work harder” (77), as Jurgis earnestly promises upon finding out that they must pay interest in addition to the monthly rent on the house they just “bought”. As Jurgis’s optimism and innocence are gradually pulverized into oblivion by the domineering, challenging, and treacherous conditions of life in Packingtown, the effects cause Jurgis to sustain uncharacteristic actions for an extended

gains more power, he begins to realise that the principles he set out for the farm originally

Not only does the land suffer from a break in the sacred connection between farmer and crops, the men lose a part of their humanity to the machine. Those "men" who run the tractors are described in the novel as being "part of the monster (Steinbeck, 48)." They have given their humanity to the company in return for money to buy food that was produced by machines, not by men. Chapter eleven describes the slow degrading of the spirits of the tractor men and the migrants who no longer know the land. The slow deterioration of the houses, with no people to care for and be sheltered by them, is symbolic of the death of the land and the people when they are not connected. (Steinbeck 158-159)

Moreover, Sinclair’s arduous efforts of depicting society's way of testing Jurgis family don’t go unnoticed. The one thing that this family had going was their love and affection for each other, but unfortunately society found various of ways to challenge that. He describes society in the novel as, “always on the verge of starvation” (page 123), which was in addition to having poor health and lack of proper nutrition. Some members of the family had no option, but to work in the meatpacking industry which was described as a dangerous, and miserable career. After long and difficult days of work coming home to each other is all that they looked forward to, “Leave it to me; leave it to me. I will earn more money - I will work harder” (page 22). Jurgis acknowledges the fact that his family will need money to survive and regardless of all the obstacles that are thrown in his path he

In conclusion, Williams expresses to the reader the pride in which the wheelbarrow is viewed. The reader is left with a rustic picture that is seen as sacred. Perhaps this man is sitting on his porch looking out upon his land. He has

The farm, in many ways, was very prosperous when the revolution began. The animals were given an education, “the reading and writing classes were however a great success,” which made them feel equal to the humans because they were now learning in the same way the humans did. The farm was becoming more prosperous in that, “ everyone worked according to their own capacity,” which made the farm a happier place to work in, and the more work was

Furthermore, hearing this every day causes a loss of self/identity. Thus, causing the slaves to do unspeakable actions since they are not equal to a humans, in the minds of the slave owners. For instance, the author recalls a memory of how the men acted during their life on the plantation: “All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl – the one who took Baby Snuggs’ place after Halle bought her with five years of Sundays” (Morrison, 13). The action of ‘fucking cows’ is a symbolic meaning to what they slaves thought of themselves. They were, in essence, called animals, which resulted in the actions of having intercourse with other animals. This type of action further drives home the sense of no identity. The slaves had no idea how to think for themselves since the slave owners did it for them. Another observation was, how the family referred to the house they lived in. For example, instead of the family calling it their house, they named it with a number: “Outside a driver whipped his horse into the gallop local people felt necessary when they passed 124”

Many people believe that living on farm is great for humans and the author of Beatus ille, agrees. In the poem he states many reasons why living on the countryside is so great. The ones that stand out most include, “libet icere modo sub antiqua ilice,” (he delights now to lie down under an old holm oak). The author shows here, that when somebodu is a farmer, you’ll have free time to rest in relaxing

Beep! Beep! Beep! I rolled over and stopped my alarm that was going off at one in the morning; I had to get up because it was time to check our cows. It was late January and all of our cows started having their calves. Every three hours the cows need checked so everyone in my family had their turn. Now that it was my turn, I crawled out of bed and got dressed to go out into the dark of the night to see if we get to bring another baby calf into this world. I have grown up on a farm with 9,000 pigs, 40 cows, 6 hunting dogs, and 150 acres of alfalfa which requires work that is usually never easy. I have been an active part of the routine care of these animals ever since I was four years old. Living on a farm has helped me learn more about life than most could ever imagine. In Father Boyle’s “Tattoo’s on the Heart” we learned how he gave the homies opportunities that most would never get the chance to have and in order to succeed, you must have failure. Growing up on a farm is an opportunity that most never have, it is like being an outcast. I couldn’t imagine a day in the homies shoes, and they couldn’t imagine a day in mine but we at the end of the day we can all relate to and are all thankful for getting second chances, new opportunities and learning how to forgive.

Oliver Goldsmith wrote the poem ‘The Deserted Village’ in protest against the social changes that he witnessed during his travels around England. There are numerous quotes in the poem that encapsulate the message that Goldsmith is trying to put across. The fictional village of Auburn has now become a place ‘where wealth accumulates, and men decay’; this is quite a disturbing image as it is now evident that Auburn is no longer the beautiful and rustic village that it was before the introduction of the Enclosure acts. The quote in question encapsulates the theme and is of extreme importance to ones understanding of the work; it sums up the message and the argument that Goldsmith is trying to put across. Goldsmith is completely condemning the