As the book continues... so does my blog

     Recently in the book Fast Food Nation I have been reading about the discovery and the innovation of McDonald and Disney World.  I would never have thought of the two different ideas being so similar when being created.  Both creators of these two place had one dream, and that was to make money.  As the book goes on, it tells us many ways on how they bring in money and who these companies target.  In this case they were targeting on little kids.  McDonald and Disney World both knew that parents will do anything in trying to keep their kids happy.  So in doing this they made commercials, that would attract little kids to ask their parents if they would take them to these places.  In doing this these places created lots of money, and hired more people to make new ideas on how they could keep on growing.  In all these companies have found ways in our environment to succeed, sometimes they ideas weren't the best for us, but it sure did help their business.



Mr. Dunn has asked us to create five level two questions about the book, here are some of what I came up with.

1. How is McDonald's similar to Disney World?
2. Do you think that  Ray Kroc and Walt Disney had one main idea, and that was to make money?
3. Why did McDonald's come up with its Playland?
4. Why do you think the boy at Greenbrier wore the Pepsi shirt?
5.  Why do you think that coming up with names like Happiest Place on Earth, and buy a Happy Meal make kids want to go there, or buy them?

He also wanted us to make two level three questions.

     1.  When they talked about how kids used their parents to get to go to McDonald's, do you ever remember doing that to your own parents?

     2.  Have you ever been to Disney World, if so did you really feel like you were in a new world, "The Happiest Place on Earth?"

Getting Started!

I am Emily Bleyer.  I go to Carbondale Community High School, and I am a sophomore in Mr. Dunn's English II class.  He has asked us to create a blog on one of the four non-fiction books he has chose for our class.  I have chosen to read, "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.  Over the next six weeks I will be blogging about what is happening in the book, and all of my questions and thought on the book.

"Fast Food Nation" is about a man trying to get into the dirty secrets of fast food.  He tires to go behind the scenes of many different restaurants, especially McDonald and see what they are actually giving us to eat and why is it changing America.  This book has many facts that really get you thinking about what America is turning into. Schlosser is starting from the beginning of how fast food was born.

The main point of this book is to get people more educated about what fast food restaurants are selling us.  He claims that fast food in america started in California and has been revolutionized in many ways to become what we today call fast food.