In Persuasion Nation
Book Essay The collection of short stories, In Persuasion Nation By George Saunders, has not only changed the way I see things around the world, but it has changed my point of view of people in our society. As each short story is told from a different perspective, you as the reader are constantly forced to look at the world through a different set of eyes. In his very first short story of the book, it is a letter from a man named Rick Sminks writing to Mrs. Ruth Faniglia about his regret to hear about her unhappiness with a product that his company made. Right away this book caught me off guard, writing a letter on someone else's behalf. It was hard to understand at first so I decided that I had to try it again and start to really believe
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This story is about 20 male monkeys who get tested with various amounts of a toxic substance. There were four groups of monkeys tested at four different doses. One was 100 mg which was the least, one was 250 mg, one was 500 mg, and the last one was 1000 mg which was the highest dose and most toxic. After day one 4 out of the 5 monkeys who took the 1000 mg dose were dead all except monkey 93990. Slowly all the monkeys pass away due to their different amounts of the toxic substance in them besides one, monkey 93990 who has taken the most toxic substance out of all of them. Eventually the scientists call it quits because the monkey has survived 10 straight days of toxic treatment. So, the scientist shoot him with tranquilizing dart, and he dies… that was the end of the story. Out of all the stories in this book this one made me think the most. Saunders does not tell you what to think at all, and it was a challenge to find my own happy conclusion with this story, so I decided to go way out of the box and thought of 9/11. Right after 9/11 there was a brief moment of shock in the US. But when the shock passed it was followed by extreme patriotism. I believe that is somewhat of what Saunders wanted the reader to feel. He wanted the sense of shock immediately after that abrupt ending, but then he wanted us to feel sympathy towards the monkey who went through all that toxic treatment just to die anyway The collection of short stories of In Persuasion Nation changed my point of view on more than could possibly be in this essay. The humor and symbolized relation to current events made this book a great read and it taught me things along the way. I hope to be able to relate with readers just as George Saunders did with
This story is about 20 male monkeys who get tested with various amounts of a toxic substance. There were four groups of monkeys tested at four different doses. One was 100 mg which was the least, one was 250 mg, one was 500 mg, and the last one was 1000 mg which was the highest dose and most toxic. After day one 4 out of the 5 monkeys who took the 1000 mg dose were dead all except monkey 93990. Slowly all the monkeys pass away due to their different amounts of the toxic substance in them besides one, monkey 93990 who has taken the most toxic substance out of all of them. Eventually the scientists call it quits because the monkey has survived 10 straight days of toxic treatment. So, the scientist shoot him with tranquilizing dart, and he dies… that was the end of the story. Out of all the stories in this book this one made me think the most. Saunders does not tell you what to think at all, and it was a challenge to find my own happy conclusion with this story, so I decided to go way out of the box and thought of 9/11. Right after 9/11 there was a brief moment of shock in the US. But when the shock passed it was followed by extreme patriotism. I believe that is somewhat of what Saunders wanted the reader to feel. He wanted the sense of shock immediately after that abrupt ending, but then he wanted us to feel sympathy towards the monkey who went through all that toxic treatment just to die anyway The collection of short stories of In Persuasion Nation changed my point of view on more than could possibly be in this essay. The humor and symbolized relation to current events made this book a great read and it taught me things along the way. I hope to be able to relate with readers just as George Saunders did with