Waknuk People Character Analysis
2. Character and Nature - The Waknuk People & the abnormalities that occurred (farm and animal produce) (Page 6 to 7, 16, 34 to 35, 39 and 41).
The Waknuk people believed that anything deviational (crops, plants, animals and others) had to be destroyed. This was evident when David’s “father ceremonially slaughtered the two-headed calf, four-legged chicken, or whatever other kind of Offence it happened to be” as a means of cleansing and showing their commitment to their faith. David made mention of the “offences” not being “limited to the livestock. Sometimes… some stalks of corn, or some vegetables”. Joseph eventually “blacklisted” some vegetable as “unreliable at some in-convenience and expense”. Even old Jacob complained that his “bloody beans are wrong. First my potatoes, then my tomatoes, then my lettuces, now my god-dam beans” and though they did all these things, there was still occurrences of “abomination”.
The Waknuk people were willing to burn a whole field to eliminate occurrences and use of deviational produce. Old Jacob complained that “Weeks of work gone up in smoke” because in his view, people were not paying the full price of the law for housing …show more content…
Global warming has caused the earth to get hotter, drastic change in weather patterns, increased sea levels, the death of a specific species of plant and animals whilst at the same time encouraging the overpopulation of another. The effect is a rippling one where everything in the food chain is suffering. Man has tried to combat global warming by trying to predict when or where the next natural disasters (hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, floods, droughts and others) will occur. But though at times we know and we try to put measures in place, we are still unaware of the magnitude of effect it would have on us and the environment, as well as, our predictive machines sometimes fail to give early
The Waknuk people believed that anything deviational (crops, plants, animals and others) had to be destroyed. This was evident when David’s “father ceremonially slaughtered the two-headed calf, four-legged chicken, or whatever other kind of Offence it happened to be” as a means of cleansing and showing their commitment to their faith. David made mention of the “offences” not being “limited to the livestock. Sometimes… some stalks of corn, or some vegetables”. Joseph eventually “blacklisted” some vegetable as “unreliable at some in-convenience and expense”. Even old Jacob complained that his “bloody beans are wrong. First my potatoes, then my tomatoes, then my lettuces, now my god-dam beans” and though they did all these things, there was still occurrences of “abomination”.
The Waknuk people were willing to burn a whole field to eliminate occurrences and use of deviational produce. Old Jacob complained that “Weeks of work gone up in smoke” because in his view, people were not paying the full price of the law for housing …show more content…
Global warming has caused the earth to get hotter, drastic change in weather patterns, increased sea levels, the death of a specific species of plant and animals whilst at the same time encouraging the overpopulation of another. The effect is a rippling one where everything in the food chain is suffering. Man has tried to combat global warming by trying to predict when or where the next natural disasters (hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, floods, droughts and others) will occur. But though at times we know and we try to put measures in place, we are still unaware of the magnitude of effect it would have on us and the environment, as well as, our predictive machines sometimes fail to give early