Appetite By Laurie Lee Summary

In the article, Appetite, Laurie Lee explained how humans take things for granted sometimes and she suggested that they need to get away from those things sometimes. She listed examples of things different than food such as people that we surround ourselves with and how we needed to get away from them too sometimes because that could lead to them getting too attached or they could get tired of each other. In the article she says, “So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly--our food, our friends, our lovers…” Lee was saying that we should not be surrounded with our usual surrounding because she said that humans should preserve the relationship while it still existed. She said that she wants humans to still have the same feeling when they are reunited with that person or the food. When she was referring she was saying that humans should not eat the same exact food night after night or get too used to it. She …show more content…
In the text it states, “The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye.” The author explained a scenario of the main idea of the article using traditional roles that were in marriages during the time period and some of it still pertains to today’s society. The man is always seen as going off and providing and a woman’s traditional job is to stay at home with the children and clean the house.
• Pathos: Lee gave the reader many eye openers and made them really think about life and do we as humans have the same routine over and over again. She makes the reader feel astonished because she caught them off guard with habits that they do not realize that they have. In the article she says, “For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves.” She was saying when we step away from the things that we do casually when we come back to them we will enjoy them even