Analysis Of Field Of Broken Dreams By Sharon Butala

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The persuasive essay "Field of Broken Dreams", by Sharon Butala discusses the issue of farms in the west being corporatized. It is essentially a good essay that is effective in conveying its message, but falls short in garnering attention. The author argues that the way we are progressing in not ideal and spends the first six paragraphs describing how things were in the past, comparing them to the way they look at the time of writing. The memories are written to seem as beautiful as possible, as a way to garner an emotional response from the reader, which contrasts sharply with the harsh tone used with "the noisy and relentless agricultural machinery," and "death-dealing chemicals." In the seventh paragraph is the thesis statement, "the corporatization