All people do, is think about themselves and what is good for them they do not realize that what they are doing could affect other people too. Nowadays people will do everything and anything to get what they want, even if that means they have to step on other people to get it. It is awful to think that our world has become this way, but it is the sad truth. He gets hurt continuously, but gets back up and does his job each and every time. Even though the Joads are going through these tough times, they get up and try to fix it and start a better life, Dobbins in FFN does the same thing. In GOW people lose their homes because they do not have enough money to pay, this also appeals to the readers’ emotions because people are being mistreated and it should not be that way. This makes the reader feel sympathy toward Dobbins, because even after all the hard work he put into working with the slaughterhouses, in the end he never got anything for it. He gave everything for his job, everytime he would get hurt, he would get back up and go to work again, until one day he could not do that anymore, and since he could not work anymore they just fired him. Schlosser talks about Kenny Dobbins and what he has gone through in sixteen years working in the slaughterhouses. In Fast Food Nation, many examples of how the workers in slaughterhouses are mistreated are given, and this appeals to the readers emotions. In FFN the people who do not have money and would do anything for a tiny pay check are the ones doing the dirty and miserable jobs, most of these people are “illegals”, as said the book. In GOW all the families are forced by the bank to move out of their homes because they cannot farm due to the weather conditions, and because of the lack of income.

Both books were also written during difficult times, GOW was written during the great depression and FFN was written during a time where greed and wealth have taken over.Īn argument that is made throughout both novels is that money controls everything, and if you do not have money, you are simply forgotten about. Although FFN and GOW were written in really different time periods, both books have similar arguments, and both authors make them very clear in the books.

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