Fast Food Nation was written by author Eric Schlosser is about the Dark Side of the All - American Meal. The point of this book is to clarify and observe overall impact of the United States fast food industry. The author insightfully illustrates the fast food culture as an exceptional item for consumption in American history and the civilization’s connection to the appearance of cars, and financial company. The author uses a lot of logos in this book. He begins the book by letting us the readers know how much the people spend on fast food each year. He describes how the society spends more money on fast food than higher education. He then continues the book by telling the history of fast food and tells short stories of the founders of fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. The biography of each founder of a fast food restaurants helps to add to the author’s logos while …show more content…
The author uses conditions that cause feelings of rage, empathy, pain and sincere sadness to toughen his argument that the American fast food industry isn’t concerned towards not only its employees, but also its customers. In the book the author introduces a dedicated slaughterhouse worker, whose name is Kenny Dobbins, who throughout his line of work got numerous amount of pain and fatal injuries including being cut by a conveyor belt teeth. From all that he got fired from his job and never got any pension. This story brings out anger in the reader because they imagine why a man gets fired and never gets a pension from all the work he has done for that company. The author also uses a story of a young girl who ate an E. coli infected jack in a box burger, and got admitted to a hospital and suffered terrible pain and later died in her mother's arm on Christmas Eve. The thought of a helpless child in pain during Christmas Eve brings up feelings of regret to the