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Summary Of Sound And Scent In The Garden By Barbra Mooney

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In a chapter from Sound and Scent in the Garden, Barbra Mooney analyzes sound, scent, and taste from the old prairies of Illinois, as told by nine different people, keeping in mind that each person may be culturally biased because of their background and life story. Mooney first starts talking about the prairie, and defends it as a garden. I think this is a critical point, because most people would probably dismiss the prairie as a “real garden”. I feel like it is defended very well and that the points she gives back up her main point. In the next section, Mooney mentions the people who lived on the prairie’s opinions on the prairie. She references that each person either loved the prairie, or hated the prairie. I personally thought I’d be …show more content…

She mentions that it is hard to write about sound accurately, because each person comes from a different background. The people from England, for example did not like most bird songs. I think this is really funny, because if you grow up here, it’s just the hoot of an owl, but if you’ve never heard an owl before, it’s a “horrid and unearthly sound”. It kind of puts things in perspective, because what if we went to a different country and heard their birds? We would probably think that they were terrible sounds as well. Mooney mentions in this section that the people we are observing only wrote about sounds on the prairie that frightened, or annoyed them, because these sounds are the ones that really stick around in your …show more content…

Mooney writes about how when people first moved to the prairie, they were disgusted by all of the ways people cooked and went about eating their food. They didn’t like that there wasn’t any bacon or vegetables. One thing they did like though, was the free prairie food that was everywhere. I think that free food everywhere sounds pretty great too. I have raspberry bushes and cherry trees, but that sounds like nothing compared to what the people on the prairies were writing about. They wrote about all kinds of different things to eat. Not only did they talk about the wild prairie food, but they also talked about the cultivated food as well. I think that they were very lucky to have been surrounded by all of that food. It seems like where they came from was very industrialized and that this was a totally foreign concept to them, to grow or find food in nature, rather than a

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