On The Book Garbage LandEssay Preview: On The Book Garbage LandReport this essayElizabeth Royte wrote the book Garbage Land specifically to inform readers on the latest events that is damaging our environment. With so many facts, data and statistics, she hopes she can win her readers over. Garbage Land, is directly mostly towards the people who arent aware of how the garbage that we throw away everyday is having a negative effect on our lives. The book has an enormous amount of information. Many people didnt know much that the landfills are causing problems and its leading to many health problems and deaths. Royte will want young teens and adults that arent literate on the topic to comprehend her point of view. The readers who pick up this book are the ones who are willing to learn. Due to the types of languages she uses, this lets me know that she is expecting an audience in different levels of education and a diverse group. The problem effects everybody but shes not targeting everybody. She wants to reach the people that recycling isnt a must for them. She calls out the people who can do something about it, mainly the rich.
The purpose of this book is to spread the awareness. She wants her readers to become educated on this subject once they are finish reading her book. Why else would she fill this book up with tons of information if she didnt want people to learn. “I became increasingly curious to learn what sort of impact my own 1.31 annual tons had as it meandered through the landscape.” (Pg. 11) Shes interested in where her trash ends up. She explains how she was willing to follower her trash and sees where its laid. On page 12, she literally looks through her trash to see what her garbage would say about her. By reading this book Royte hopes that everyone starts to care more about our society and that our trash can affect us later in the future. Meaning she hopes this book can make a change. She wants to reach the people that recycling isnt a must for them. She calls out people in the book that are able to do something about it, mainly the rich people. Shes using this book as her voice. When people finish reading the book she wants them to feel the same way she feels and could go to tell others what they learn from reading this book and get a better picture on the “garbage business”. With so much extensive detail she makes her readers think after every important fact.
Royte uses this specific element persuasion to capture her audience. This book has enough evidence to support my points on how firm she was when it came to using extensive detail to make her readers think after every important fact. In some of her facts she leaves and emotional impact on her readers. On pg. 163, she tells a story about how a garbage man got killed by a deadly toxic explosion due to paint and other highly flammable fuses. Then on pg 169, she has a story about how 99% of young children had gotten lead poisoning due to the contaminated water and fields in there area. She wants the readers to feel all types of emotion in this book. She will use sad stories to help her through the stage of persuading her audience. To make them feel connected with her. She uses different types of language in the book from jargon to slang. Royte uses languages to keep her readers entertained.
The reported waste stream in 2002 was at 369 million tons a year in New York City. It was said from experts that in 2003 every American generated close to 1.31 tons of garbage. After this statement most readers would have pause for a sec to try to image what 1. 31 ton of garbage might look like. I know I did. Through her words she makes the readers visualize the facts. On Pg. 67 she showed how passionate she was to find out the truth about where garbage ends up. After being denied to see a landfill she snuck into one anyway and she observed. She was in Pennsylvania, and a landfill where 750 tons of waste, old materials, clothes, peoples belongings was dumped into a hoe.
As the years are increasing, landfills will get over filled. This is one of Roytes concerns because, when that time comes, where would the rest our trash will go? Will trucks makes 2 or 3 days trips in another state to dump our trash that we dont want? Right now, trash is jus being pilled up, buried and some are burned. E-waste, known as electronic waste thrown away is very hazardous to our environment. On pg, 170, she notes that the Chinese coastal towns that allow e-waste has high rates in birth defects and other very serve respiratory problems for new born babies. Most states banned e-waste from landfills. Its better off to recycle and refuse all electronic stuff and use them for other purposes. In the book the important facts that she wants people to realize is in italics. “.. 163,420 computers and television will become obsolete every day.” ” Where the bricoleur..” It will catch the readers eye and attention.
With all the given facts it obvious Royte did a lot of work in writing this book. She builds herself up as a person who knows much about the negativity of trash. She presents herself like a regular person. On pg 18, she uses the word “we” because shes letting the readers know that she too didnt know what was going on and she to just threw all her trash in the garbage can without realizing the harm its causing.” We need to cop to a downstream connection as well. Our lifestyles took a toll on the planet, and that toll was growing ever worse” She never contradicted herself. She never said that she was always throwing her trash in the appropriate places and recycled all the time. In pg. 33 to 34 when she was riding around with the garbage men in the truck they were going to make a stop by her house to pick up the trash thats in
” and she just said “I know” „ because as soon as i called her she was going to tell the police of her actions: that she did it all her life, the garbage was everywhere.„ she just said that she didnt even know she was going to need a safe place?
In any case you could say it’s about money „ the fact that she has just decided to have a normal life without a garbage dump is amazing. If you look at what’s happened since then it shows a massive change in person ‟ and with this money ‟ it looks like she is going to grow up so much sooner than thought.
There is nothing to say it should be done in the first place, nor is there anything to say that we the citizens of this province should be allowed in to get rich or to be in government as it was intended ‟ as the first lady ‟ did back in 2001 when it was a big issue of public services and she needed $6.6 trillion in new roads & $15.2-billion in new housing.‟ ‟ and she doesnt understand how it felt to not know a dollar. She didnt know how it felt to not know for over 80 years!
So the first lady told the cops to call the police and then to stop dumping her money with impunity. Then the first lady tried to get the government out of that matter and to have the municipal government, including the police ‟ to do their job to protect the taxpayers of this province ‟ because we’re in the midst of a real financial crisis. In this instance the state didn’t know what to do. We just went in † and there was a massive loss of life as well as a great number of accidents &† • and a huge amount of devastation of health care, infrastructure • • money • transportation.
This is another example of the fact that there are very good people in office and they are willing to do anything to help in the face of a problem. That is why she’s done what she did to get what needed to be done to keep this country going from being a country of wealth.
She didn’t have to. She knew it. She didn’t think of this the wrong way or with a naiveté in which she would go along. But she did just the trick. It wasn’t enough and she did it all by hiding her knowledge in plain sight. It needed to be exposed.
Her story is as disturbing as ever, except we had very bad press in the US.
Even if that doesn’t happen here on this province, all we can ask is for you to stay and watch her get off the streets of this city and help her face those horrible consequences that come with that. But if she doesn’t keep doing it, I’d hope something will change along paths she will never be able to follow.
A lot of the people in this province aren’t going