Slaughterhouse Analysis

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Greeley, Colorado is a meatpacking town. You can smell it even before you see it. The people living there are so used to the smell that they no longer can smell it. The hamburgers and any meat you eat from fast food restaurants come from small places like Greeley. It is an example of industrialization because they are the best paying manufacturing jobs. It is a modern day manufacturing factor.
When the first slaughterhouse opened, it was located in an rural location. One other theme is rural land use because it was surrounded by cattle and maybe a few scattered houses. Most slaughterhouses had cattle shipped to them but not this one. They had their own cattle. If you worked there, the condition of the place was not so great. There were a lot …show more content…

He also visits a slaughterhouse and gets a tour of the place. When walking through the place, he was warned that they would step on blood so he should tuck his pants into his boots. When he is walking in, he sees employees, mostly women, slicing meat with sharp knives. They slice one and then grab another right after. A few workers even carve the meat with a instrument called Whizzards. The Whizzed looks like a Norelco razor. Some employees were even sweating although it was freezing cold inside. There is a floor called the kill floor, on the kill floor there areas many cows that are stripped out of their skin and they are dangling from strings that are attached to the ceiling. The author now gets feels like he is in a slaughterhouse. He sees people pulling out the kidneys with their bare hands. The sight was very disturbing. The slaughterhouses are located in a rural area which make one of the theme rural land use. Another theme is folk culture because it means traditions that are made by rural groups and the slaughterhouse is how meat gets packed instead of any other …show more content…

One day, Kenny got hurt when he heard someone yell “watch out” ot him. Even though he caught the ninety pound box with one hand, he was thrown against the momentum belt because of the massive weight. Kenny went to the doctors who bandaged his hand and he was free to go home. He stayed at home for a few days but then returned back to work. Kenny had been instructed to do light duty after his injury. Kenny recovered after a few weeks and went back to Greeley plant to work. He got remarried but was still loyal to the company. One day, Kenny was working and he saw that someone was about get hurt. He yelled out “watch out” but the employee didn't hear him. So he ran up to him and saved him. He then got an award for saving a co

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