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Plot: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schosser begins with a discussion about the beginning of fast food, how they came to be, and the beginning of the infamous McDonald brothers. He

talks about how fast food restraunts were founded and how they were brought to where they are today. The book talks a lot about the people who founded fast food restraunts, and how

they managed to keep the restraunt open. It talks about the heaath concerns that come from fast food such as uncooked mean, ecoli and most of all, obesity. Its discusses that

people are trying to sue the fast food industry for making them obese. It talks about where the buisness was started, and where fast food flavors are concocted.

Fast Food Nation clearly distinguishes myth from fact, and makes sure all the information is 100% accuarate. The book also talks about how fast our Fast Food Nation has

developed. We started out with sit down restraunts then upgraded to fast food restruants, where you don't even have to get out of your car to get your food. Later on, fast food retraunts

became demended almost everywhere. Becuase there were now thousands of fast food restraunts, they had to make food faster; even if that costs the quality of the food. The main

plot of this book was to inform American's how our Fast Food Nation started, and what it is doing to our country; whether it's good or bad.

Author's Goal: I think the author goal in this book is very crystal clear. What he trying to tell America is what fast food is doing to our nation. He mentions all of the calories we intake

when we eat fast food. He also talks about what the fast food is doing to the children of America who eat fast food to an extensive amount. He talks about obesity becoming a bigger

problem ever since fast food restraunts. What I think he is trying to say is that fast food is ruining our nations health, and it is a big contributer to the growing epidemic of obesity. He

is trying to tell us about all the health concerns that come with eatting to much fast food. He talks about Ecoli, uncooked food, obesity, and all the grease you take in with eatting fast

food. If you eat fast food to much, it can result in complicated health concerns, obesity, and feeling tired and sluggish all the time. The author's main goal is to warn America about

the ricks of fast food, and to tells us about how the fast food buisness came to be.

PART 1. "THE AMERICAN WAY."

Chapters: Chapter 1: "Founding Fathers"- The first chapter opens with a story of a man named Carl N. Karcher, born in Ohio in 1917. He wanted to help him father on the farm, so he stopped his

schooling after the 8th grade. After helping his father for some time, he moved to California where his uncle offered him a job. After working there he soon met his wife Margaret and

they began to start thier own family. Soon after, Carl bought a hotdog stand with the little money he and his wife had, hoping the stand would get good buisness. He was lucky, and

because of California's fast growing population, his hot dog stand was successful. When he made enough money off the hotdog stand, he even opened his own barbeque (drive-in). In

another part of California, the McDonald brothers were doing very well in their hamburger buisness and they were the two would came up with the "speedee service system", which was

the beginning to "fast food". After all of these buisness's started doing so well, many other people started opening restraunts which have come to be many of the popular fast food

joints today. Later, the oil industry started to fail and fast food restraunts started to fail also, but they recovered just like the oil industry soon did. The next chapter is called "Your

Trusted Friends". I think this chapter is going to be about the characters and cartoons they start using to promote restraunts.

Chaper 2: "Your Trusted Friends"- Chapter two maily talks about the famous Walt Disney. It talks about how he came to be famous, and how he kept himself known. But in the very

beginning of the chapter, it talks a little about the Ray A. Kroc museum. Before you get into the museum, you have to walk through the "McStore". At the McStore, you can buy

bean-bag McBurglar dolls, telephone shaped like french fries, ties clocks, key chains, golf bags, and duffel bags, jewelry, baby clothes, lunch boxes, mouse pads, leather jackets,

postcards, toy trucks and much, much more. This chapter is called "Your Trusted Friends" because both Walt Disney and Ray A. Kroc started to use characters and cartoons to

promote their buisness. Their buisness boomed after the invention of their characters because children made these characters famous. The next chapter is called "Behind the

Counter" and i think that it will talk about the secrets of fast food restraunts that they don't tell us.

Chapter 3: What this chapter mainly talks about is who fast food restraunts hire and why. The author says that fast food restraunts mainly hire teens in high school that are willing to

work for low wages. The book also says that besides teenages, the main whole of people who work at fast foos restraunts are the disabled, elderly and people who have immigrated to

America. The author also says that for most of the people who work at fast food restraunts, English is a second language for them. It is also stated that no other buisness pays so

many of their workers the minimmum wage more than fast food restraunts. Most of the people who work at fast food restraunts need the extra money and can only have a part time

job. The next chapter is called "Success" and I believe that it will be about how the fast food restraunt became so successfulmand I think it will explain what tactics they used to make

the fast food buisness so successful.

Chapter 4: "Success"- When the chapter starts, the author is driving with a pizza deliver man in Colorado. The chapter then starts talking about how the pizza delivery buisness got so

successful, which then branches into how all fast food restraunts became so successful. This very short chapters talks about the strategies and tricks that fast food restraunts use to

make themselves successful. This is the end of the "The American Way" section of Fast Food Nation. The next chapter is called "Why the Fries Taste Good", and I think that this

chapter will be about what they do to the food that makes it taste so good, and what they do to the food that make it so good, but so unhealthy.

PART 2. "MEAT AND POTATOES."

C ﻿hapter 5: "Why the Fries Taste Good"- This chapter begins with the story of J.R. Simplot. J.R.was born in 1909 and soon after his birst, his family settled in Idaho. When he was

fifteen, he dropped out of school and left home. He got a job at a potatoe warehouse and made 30 cents an hour. At the age of sixteen, he became a potatoe farmer. Within 10 years,

J.R. Simplot became the largest shipper of potatoes in the West. When World War II started, he made a fortune selling dried onions to the American military. When the war ended,

Simlot became very interested in "frozen food technology" and after he started a food freezing strategy, he began selling frozen french fries to McDonalds. "On the Range" is the next

chapter; and I think it will be about where they get the meat for fast food restraunts and how the animals are treated.

Chapter 6: "On the Range"- This chapter opens with the author on a tour of Hank's cattle ranch. Hank takes him on a tour of where the cattle once roamed. A small portion of the

chapter also talks about the meat packaging proccess. In 1998, Hank, who took the author on the cattle ranch tour, took his own life. The next chapter is called "Cogs in the Great

Machine" and I think it's going to be about the big farms where McDonald'd gets their pork from.

Chapter 7: "Cogs in the Great Machine"- This chapters starts with the author entering Greeley, Colorado, a city that revolves around meat. This chapter talks about a small town in

Colorado that is very big on meat and meat packaging. The city is full of the smell of dead animals and the city has many slaughterhouses. Althought the town has been overcome by

drugs, poverty and homelessness, the town still thrives on it meat packing industry. The next job is called "The Most Dangerous Job", and I think it's going to be about a dangerous job

that people have to perform in order for people to get food from fast food restraunts.

Chapter 8 : "The Most Dangerous Job"- This chapter is about the most dangerous job in America, meat packaging. This chapter takes the author through a slaughterhouse. He

describes what he sees in the slaughterhouse which is bunches of dead meat, and a man who shoots cows for 8 and a half hours everyday. It is the most dangeous job because og

the knives and weapon the slaughterers use to kill the animals and chop the meat. One wrong move and someone could have a serious injury. The people who clean the

slaughterhouses are also at risk. They have to go up in the machinery to clean things, and if someone forgets to turn of a machine, that person could lose a hand. This chapter is

mainly about the ricks that people who work at slaughterhouses face. They people who clean the slaughterhouses are mainly ilegal immigrants. The next chapter is called, "What's in

the Meat." I think this chapter will be about what fast foos restraunts actually put in their meat.

Chapter 9: "What's in the Meat"- This chapter begins with a story about Lee Harding who ordered a taco at Taco Bell. He had thought that the meat tastes weird, like it was slimy.

The night after and a few days after, Lee was having severe cramps. After waiting a few days, he went to the hospital and they said it was just a "summer flu". The next day, he found

a not on his front door that said he has E. coli O157:H7. He called a health offical and she said that she doubted it came from the chicken taco because E. coli is very rarely found in

chicken. He mention the frozen hambuger he had and they had them tested, and it came back positive. The rest of this chapter talks about food-borne illnesses that have come from

eating fast food. The next chapter "Global Realization" I think will be about America realizing what fast foos does to us.

Chapter 10: "Glabal Realization"- This chapter is about America waking up and realizing what fast food is doing to our health and our nation. Not only is is ruining our health and

causing health concerns such as obesity, it ruinging our nation because we are being seen as worshiping fast food restraunts because we depend on them so much. This is about the

world waking up and realizing that if we get ride of fast food restraunts, we can make for a better future and everything can get better from there. There will be less health concerns,

and we will stop being looked at as the county who worships McDonald's, Wendy's, and all the other fast food restraunts.

Muckraking Theme: (Explain what techniques or strategies the author uses to bring concealed information to the masses.) I really like the way this author tells us important

information. Many other author wouldn;t come right out and say how it is like this author does. He doesn't hold back what he needs to say. This book is packed full of imformation

and he just comes right out to say it. I think he does that because the information could change our nation and bring us closer together. The information is important so he comes

right out and says it so that it will surprize us and we will remember it better. This book was very well written.