Compare and Contrast
Misti Nelson
November 9, 11
Professor Gramse
Compare and Contrast When I was little, I remember going to fish camp for the summer and helping cut and hang fish so we can prepare to feed our family and other people around the campsite. Because sharing is the way I remember how we survived and lived with our family. Hunting is a big part of life in Alaska. In Alaska we have rich traditions called subsistence, that people up here in Alaska go hunting in and using to sustain their community and also their spirituality and generation. Experiences as a subsistence hunter are great contrast of those who are unfamiliar with hunting. In chapter 15 of Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan quotes” I have always thought it wise to maintain a healthy distance between me and firearms. Besides, you have to maintain a certain kind of dad in order to join the culture of hunting in America, and mine, of the great indoors men, was emphatically not that dad.” Pollan’s father looked at hunting as a sport and not as something he would have to live off of. The lack of childhood experiences seems to have impacted the way he looks at hunting and influenced Pollan.
According to Seth Kantner he and his family always have a diverse variety of food when it comes to dinner, and they use all of the parts of the animal and don’t let any of it go to waste. This kind of personal background started off early so he has more interest and experiences for hunting.
Pollan quotes, “The pigs had their heads down, eating acorns, utterly oblivious to our presence. Then the woods exploded. I saw a stagger and fall back against the embankment, then struggle drunkenly to its feet. I pumped my rifle but it was already too late: The other pigs were gone. Richard fired again at the wounded and it crumpled.” Such a wild experience for his first time hunting and he didn’t even shoot anything, makes him want to go again.
Katner writes about gutting a very large moose and how it was slippery
November 9, 11
Professor Gramse
Compare and Contrast When I was little, I remember going to fish camp for the summer and helping cut and hang fish so we can prepare to feed our family and other people around the campsite. Because sharing is the way I remember how we survived and lived with our family. Hunting is a big part of life in Alaska. In Alaska we have rich traditions called subsistence, that people up here in Alaska go hunting in and using to sustain their community and also their spirituality and generation. Experiences as a subsistence hunter are great contrast of those who are unfamiliar with hunting. In chapter 15 of Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan quotes” I have always thought it wise to maintain a healthy distance between me and firearms. Besides, you have to maintain a certain kind of dad in order to join the culture of hunting in America, and mine, of the great indoors men, was emphatically not that dad.” Pollan’s father looked at hunting as a sport and not as something he would have to live off of. The lack of childhood experiences seems to have impacted the way he looks at hunting and influenced Pollan.
According to Seth Kantner he and his family always have a diverse variety of food when it comes to dinner, and they use all of the parts of the animal and don’t let any of it go to waste. This kind of personal background started off early so he has more interest and experiences for hunting.
Pollan quotes, “The pigs had their heads down, eating acorns, utterly oblivious to our presence. Then the woods exploded. I saw a stagger and fall back against the embankment, then struggle drunkenly to its feet. I pumped my rifle but it was already too late: The other pigs were gone. Richard fired again at the wounded and it crumpled.” Such a wild experience for his first time hunting and he didn’t even shoot anything, makes him want to go again.
Katner writes about gutting a very large moose and how it was slippery