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Eric Schlosser: By Jeremiah Reyes

Questions- Aim:What is the author’s purpose? Audience: Who is the audience? Historical: How does the author’s persuasion affect the historical context of the written text? Cultural: How does the persuasion affect the cultural text?

Aim: What is the author’s purpose? Eric Schlosser’s Purpose is to inform people about fast food and how it has impacted the kids in today’s society. He thinks that kids are getting to obese and knows that it’s bad but he doesn’t want to affect how people eat and affect their decisions on what to eat. On a website titled “ Fast Food Nation Interview: Eric Schlosser On Obesity, Kids, “  I went to McDonald's. I didn't want to write something elitist that was a putdown of what ordinary people eat. n d Fast Food PR”(Schlosser). This quote is demonstrating that he wants to try and reach out to people and trying to inform them and tell them about eating more healthy, but he doesn’t want to affect anyone’s decisions.

Audience: The audience for Fast Food Nations is technically anyone that is a consumer and is trying to find out whether fast food is good for them or not. The audience is consumers of any types of foods. It states, “ Schlosser also discusses the tactics ills: the exploitation of children naïveté and trusting nature”(Wiki ). This is showing that McDonalds and all these other greasy companies that target the kids and use funny and silly characters(tactics) to get the kids attention, And with these tactics they use, it keeps attracting the kids and cause them to keep coming back for more. Like McDonald's, they use the character Ronald McDonald to attract the kids and it kept them to keep coming back because Ronald McDonald caught on so fast it just became a big hit.

Historical: Eric Schlosser’s persuasion affected the historical context because he uses from when Fast Foods were just evolving, and he uses them because at the time the Companies would be just coming out and people would want to try it and when they tried it they would get hooked onto the food. When they got hooked on then they kept going on back for more and more. And Eric Schlosser is trying to get to his point that people don’t realize about what is in the food, and he is also trying to say that they don’t realize the delicious ingredients that are in the food that makes them keep coming back for more. And due to this it would cause people to keep coming back and back and then eventually gaining too much weight and then becoming obese. It states saying, “ In marketing to children, Schlosser suggests, corporations have infiltrated schools through sponsorship ”(Wiki). This is stating that the convolved companies were getting involved with the schools, and then when they got involved they would start spreading the word of their company to get the kids to get their parents and grandparents to go and get them the fat greasy foods.

Cultural: Eric Schlosser’s persuasion is having an affect on cultural text because he has made more people be able to stop and think about how bad fast food is actually bad for the Citizens of America. He is making an impact on today’s society because people have now actually realized and are starting to get fit and not always eat greasy foods, and occasionally they can but they do it every once in awhile. But when people do eat bad foods, they make sure to workout or do something active to burn off the calories that way they can make sure they don’t get obese and have bad health when they are older. They do this so they can maintain and have a health lifestyle.

Citations:in [|__http://www.prwatch.org/news/2006/11/5488/fast-food-nation-interview-eric-schlosser-obesity-kids-and-fast-food-pr__]

[|__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation__]