Herb's Chicken Blog

The introduction of this article was really interesting and made me excited to read it. Which according to the reading is what the introduction is supposed to do. In the passage they were making a chicken coop and I thought they were going to a chicken farm to pick up the chickens and bring them home to start to breed them. The last sentence of the introduction contained the word "process" which really did not come across as killing the chicken to me. Unfortunately the passage was really quite the opposite. They did go to the chicken farm but it consisted of a visit where an old 87 year old man, Herb, killed a chicken out of a cone. The essay was really grapic and kind of scarring but the details written actually made the story very readable. Last week in class we talked about how when there is details in an essay or a narrative it is much easier to picture the images being described and the essay is much more interesting and it keeps your attention. Even though this essay was disturbing, it some how managed to keep my attention and I am pretty sure it was because of the details and the images running through my head. I have been thinking about possible career paths lately and animals have always interested me so much. Since I have been in Wilmington my strong animal intrest has grown intensely. The other day I was on a run with a my swim team and as I ran over the bridge on the path to the beach I saw a bunch of stingrays sitting along the bank in the water. I was so attracted by it I had to stop and look at them. Anyway that is kind of irrevelant to this blog, I am just talking through it, but that being said I really am interested in all animals so I loved that it was about chickens. My attention was immediately drawn but then when the poor chicken was killed it was kind of hard to read. I know killing chickens is food and it is understandable but at the same time I really was uncomfortable reading about a chicken dying.