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Kingvoler v Look. Life in America Feeling Unsatisfied? Common human attributes
are normal to acquire, yet Americans seem to pick ...
Submitted by Lala330 on April 8, 2008
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Life in America
Feeling Unsatisfied?
Common human attributes are normal to acquire, yet Americans seem to pick and choose how they want to acquire these traits, whether it’s excessively or minimally. In both readings, “Facing the Village” by Lenore Look and “A Fist in the Eye of God” by Barbara Kingsolver, the authors present many human attributes and the pros and cons of how Americans act. In “Facing the Village,” Lenore Look starts out being the typical, ignorant, greedy, arrogant, and unstable judge of how to trust someone American. After visiting China, where her parents’ home village is, she realizes how Americans, like herself, really are and how unsatisfied they really are in life. In “A Fist in the Eye of God,” Kingsolver also discusses how Americans want to change things and don’t appreciate the natural world the way it is. Human beings’ attitudes towards life and the people around them is the reason people are left feeling unsatisfied about their lives in contemporary America.
American’s ignorance gives them a feeling of alienation from nature and culture which leaves them feeling unsatisfied about their life in modern America. Kingsolver discusses that because of the lack of knowledge in science, people try things that they don’t have experience in and don’t know the result in the long run. She describes how people neglect learning about science and don’t realize how much there is to it. She writes, “Scientific illiteracy in our population is leaving too many of unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths” (Kingsolver, 205). Kingsolver is referring to the damages to the environment as a result of ignorance. If people knew more about the effects of our actions on the environment, they wouldn’t feel so divorced from nature and they wouldn’t have so many life threatening and...
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