Assignment 3

Bill Bryson, an English novelist writes as if he is walking the reader through each and every room of his house. Here he explains the pipes, the paint, the colors, and the smells, all to give the reader a better image of what they are experiencing, and exactly what he would like the reader to see through the words he has written. From previous pieces I have read from other authors, there is the possibility that Bryson may have wanted to use the image of his house to portray his feelings, or his emotions.

When beginning to read Bryson’s piece, it is evident that in order to begin he has chosen to describe the place in which he is writing from, which is his house. From there he goes back in time and describes the plot on which the church near his house sits on. Which then continues on through his story in order to describe what past eating habits were, and how in which food was kept in order to consume it before that of refrigerators and freezers, up until the point when large blocks of ice were discovered and thought to be used to preserve food.

As defined by “dictionary.com” inquiry is to seeing the truth, information, or knowledge. Directly related to the way in which Bryson presented his book, throughout the passage read, it is clear that he had taken an inquiry as to the property he was living on, and what surrounded it, and as to what may have come before him. For the sake of his book, Bryson inquired much of his own research to find out the typical eating habits of certain time periods for his location, as well as inventions and other findings that could help to make the time period in which he was describing much easier for people. On page 67 of his book, or better the second page of his chapter entitled “The Kitchen” Bryson has spent his time explaining the unfortunate occurrences, which was that of the way food, was made centuries before our time. Throughout this page Bryson goes through and exemplifies previous pieces of work written by other authors describing the food adulteration. Some of which are titles such as “The Expedition of Humphry Clinker”,  “Poison Detected: Or Frightful Truths”, “The Nature of Bread, Honesty and Dishonesty Made”, and “Food Adulteration”. All of these titles targeted that of bread, and the way in which it had been abused, and maybe even shamed. Each of these titles describes human bones being used as a type of flour used in order to bake the bread.