In the article “Is food the new sex” Mary Eberstadt talks about the changes in life over the years. “What happens when, for the first time in history, adult human beings are free to have all the sex and food they want?" Sex and food are believed to be two things humans can not live without. It is also believed that there is somehow a link between the two. If they are pursued without consequences, they can be proven to be ruinous to all.
In the article they compare a woman from 1958 named Betty to her granddaughter of today Jennifer. They are not real people but only used as an example of the many changes over the last fifty years. Betty’s makes much of her food from jars and cans were as Jennifer prefers fresh fruits and vegetables. The difference in moral attitude is what separates the two. Betty believes that food is only a matter of taste where as sex is governed by universal moral law, where as Jennifer believes the exact opposite.
Today we now know more about the food we eat and the things that go into them. Our way of eating has changed over the years, we now have growing groups of people who are becoming vegetarians due to the morals they believe in. The reversal between sex and food appears firmer the more passionately one clings to either pole.
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Jocelyn--
ReplyDeleteYou've got a start here and some of the main ideas, but I think you need to break this into more developed paras. This was the most difficult article, I think, and many other students had trouble with it. (Look at their attempts and my comments to get some additional help.)
Use the sections of the article to help organize your summary--go through to identify what each section does and says. At the beginning, she does say that food and sex are more available now than they have ever been, but what more does she say? How have people's attitudes changed about the two (in her view)? You do get into this at the end of your summary, but you need to give main point of the article right at the beginning.
Section 2 talks about why food and sex have become so available. what does she say about that (with some explanation)?
Then we've got the Betty and Jennifer section, and a section apiece on food, then sex. What do each of these sections say? And in conclusion can you tell what Eberstadt's explanation and attitude are towards these changes?