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Who is Wendell Berry? (What does he care deeply about? (The environment…
Who is Wendell Berry?
What does he care deeply about?
The environment
advocation through literature
goal was to replace people with technology
The environment
His farm in Kentucky
God
The environment
How agribusiness affects local communities
Pointing out the failures of the industrial revolution
Science will not provide solutions to everything
place faith in the people
the world is maintained everyday by the same forces that created it
Traditional values, such as marital fidelity and strong community ties, are essential for the survival of mankind
God/Higher power
The world is maintained everyday by the same forces that created it
all creatures live by breathing God's breath and participate in his spirit
this is why we have to live at the expense of other creatures
Traditional values are vital
Marital values
Local farming
Don't impose the answers! The answers should come to you.
What is the right thing to do?
Be an environmental activist who fights for the sustainability of the Earth.
Don't use violence
Fight for what is right no matter the cost/Don't be an observer.
Strong local economies are essential to the survival of the species and the well-being of the planet
Small scale farming is essential to to healthy local economies
Connections within the novel
Connections from real life to the novel
"It takes years, maybe it takes longer than a lifetime, to know a place, especially if you are getting to know it as a place to live and work" (Berry 91).
Reminds me of when my aunt and my grandma moved to different areas in Virginia. I miss the days where I could just walk for 10 minutes and arrive at my aunt's and my grandma's. But, now my grandma has a benefit at her new house: by having more backyard space, she is able to tend to her garden and grow her own plants (and eventually she got used to it!) as Wendell Berry said; she warmed up to the place by living and working on it.
How does Berry reveal values through his novel? (Text evidence)
"The problem is how to maintain good treatment beyond an occasional lifetime" (Berry 84).
"What I like about the woods, what is consoling, is that usually nobody is working there, unless you would say God is" (Berry 85).
"It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place" (Berry 88).
Deepening the understanding of characters
We begin to understand that Hannah Coulter is a very community-based person.
Role of the individual and the community
Individual: revolution; never concede
Community:
Values
Agrarian values
be patient
Communitarian Consciousness
must support what is good for local life
traditionalism
agriculture makes the foundation of america's greater culture
practice pragmatic ethics
populist conservatism
to an extent, moral objectivist