Hello,
My apologies for posting my #7 comment so late in the afternoon on the day it is due. Finals week can do that to us! I am going to write on the the "Methland" excerpt, primarily because I enjoyed the read and that it fits wonderfully for what I intend to write on my #3 essay.
Summary: Nick Reding is a small town guy, who steps out of the rural town from which he grows up to traveling the country writing articles for a magazine. He stumbles across a fascinating drug, Meth, that has a devastating affect on its users. His curiosity is sparked and his research takes him as far back as the late 1800's in Japan where it was first invented by chemist, to present day, being made with products found at local drugstores combined in a bathtub constructing the drug. He travels the nation in search of answers to how this epidemic came to be, and is able to drawl many conclusions. He pointed out that many small towns seem to have the worst problem with meth, giving good reasons to his observations such as demands of working long days where your productivity defines your livelihood.
In this article, the writer brings about several characters in which he interviewed and was able to gather information into the life of a drug addict. He dug deep and found one meth addict, Roland Jarvis, with a truly morbid story and goes into gruesome details to disturb the reader and embed the overall statement. I think it was necessary for him give vivid details about a man blowing up his meth lab, "His skin was dripping off his body in sheets" (Methland). Reding throughout this read, makes many claims about meth, its existence, and its users. Meth is habit forming and damaging, he gives an abundance of scientifical information to its affects on the brain and the body while using meth. Historically, he presents that meth has been a problem for much longer than suspected, being used for soldiers in world wars to keep them going. He mentions several times throughout, how the most morbid murders on record had correlations to methamphetamine. Reding points out that social status is a contributor, poorer, working class, young, white males, are the primary users.
Overall his story is powerful and adds further insight into our readings from "Winters Bone". It relates immensely because the story of "Winters Bone" takes place in the mid-west, Ozark country. Reding makes claims that the mid-west has the most profound impact of meths destructing forces. In the novel by Daniel Woodrell, it shows how meth destroys families and corrupts the community. The same correlation that Nick Reding points out with his article. Hand in hand, the two make great compliments to one another and I am exciting to begin writing.
-David
http://meth-kills.org/ Great information and facts about meth.
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Hi David,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, great picture. really represents the wonderful drawbacks to meth. I think that your sumary of Reding's writing is a great one. you seem to have a very good understanding of the article. I think that youre very right about your claim that the article relates perfectly to Winter's Bone, as the story was written in a small town, very poor and old in thier ways. I think that the article will help you out a lot when writing your essay.
John
David,
ReplyDeleteNice job with your post! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, as you went into great detail in such a short amount of writing. If I would not have read the article, I believe I would have gained enough insight to what you were trying to get across; the picture was disgusting but definitely made a statement. I agree with you when you said this article and Winter's Bone are closely related. They are about meth and how it destroys families and the people that use the nasty drug.
Hi David,
ReplyDeleteI always like reading what you have to write. I kind of understood the story but when I read the things you write you explain things better I think.
Thanks for your post. Once again, you delivered a thoughtful and insightful read. I agree with Janis that your writing is very throughout and contained a lot of information. However, I think you spent a little too much time summarizing. I think adding a little bit more analysis would greatly improve this article.
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