Monthly Review Fast Food Nation

In the food educational book called Fast Food Nation talks about the history of how fast food got his name. The author, Eric Schlosser, tells the story of how fast food originated and evolved into what it is now. Fast food originated from small stands on the street that sold hot dogs and stuff. It went through many changes and had been impacted by many different cooperation. There were lots of rivaling fast food restaurants that were competing on the cheapest, tasteful, and convenient food.

1. What was the author's purpose(s) in writing this book, and how can you tell? How well was this purpose achieved?

Eric Schlosser's purpose of writing this book is to inform others about the history of fast food itself. Many of the new generation of kids never questioned fat food restaurants and thought they were always here to begin with. When in reality, it took years for the fast food restaurants to assemble the prefect process on how they cook the food.

Most kids now a days know that fast food is bad but do they really know why it is bad? Most of them don't. On top of that kids don't really care about their health until they are older because when you are young you can burn the food at a faster rate. But if eating fast food becomes a habit, when they get older they will suffer the consequence.

Eric also wanted the public to know all of the bad things that fast food companies do just to get their money. The company mangers manges the company and yet they are the ones deciding what should go on what type of food. They are not cooks and they are making food for the public according to the price range they want. He also wanted people to know about the history of fast food because most of the people don't really know about it. He wants to let them know how fast food changed into what it is now and how it has caused a dramatic change into society even though its just restaurants.

I think that this books' job was achieved. He wanted to let everyone know about all the dangerous things that an happen. He also wanted everyone to know the real truth and secrets behind fast food. In fact a movie was made solely based on this book itself. The movie was shown to many people and Eric fulfilled his duties to shed some light to the younger kids that don't know much about fast food.

2. For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)

I think that this book is mostly towards younger readers and some adults because most of the adults know and the harmful things that can come with fast food. I think that is was towards teens because they are the ones that don't know anything about fast food and yet they eat it the most too. Before I read this book the only things I knew from fast food is that it is unhealthy and it is fat for you. That is basically all the adults told me. However none of these things mattered to me because I would usually burn of the energy really quick.

I can tell that the book is towards the teenage group because it is full of fun facts that relates to things we see everyday such as McDonald, Burger King, and Walt Disney Pictures. The teenage group knows all if not most of these fast food companies. Walt Disney is not a fast food company but it has worked and made contracts with McDonald before. I think the teenage group would most definitely like it because it is an eye opener to things that were never questioned.

I also learned many facts and things that happened during the age when fast food was evolving and competing with one another. The blueprint for making such a successful cooking system was also turned into to be made for factories. I think that the things that fast food affected during this age was very interesting and I think that other teens like me would enjoy it too.

4. How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style?

I think that the author's writing style is very clear. When he talks about the history of fast food and you really relate to how things were back then. He also paints a picture in your head about things like "What Ifs". He does a really good job condensing the job and still make the literature flow as you read it. Even though most of the was information he still has short stories to go along with it. I thought that was a good thing to put in his book because if he were to just cramp us all with just information the book would be very boring. He also keeps the readers interested with what happened after this event and such and such.

I also thought that his writing style is great for long termed stories because in the beginning of the story he traced it all the way back to the first fast food restaurant and in the end he talks about the fast food nation now. He displays a good sense of time in his book. He also relates other outside problems into his book. He talks about WW2, Walt Disney, and other companies who used the blue print for using employees to the best way possible. Eric also uses real life stories to his story so it makes the reader feel like the problems are real and can happen to anyone. I also like how he talks about other things that is sort of relating towards fast food things. He talks about other things like food somethings. Not fast food but regular food. He also tells about employee's harsh working conditions and how many people are dying or have lost body parts while doing this certain job like the slaughter house for any example.