Descriptive Use Of Imagery In Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry is an author who argues that because society is centralized the power of distributing food is given by the few. Because of this people have to buy food from stores, which are sold in appliances like plastic or aluminum foil, they wear out quickly and because of this, our “waste” keeps growing but we (the people) choose to ignore it. Using imagery, Berry was able to be really descriptive to the readers and is able to achieve his purpose.
[First Paragraph] Berry lived beside a river called the Kentucky River, he describes the river as a lovely river and how it is called the “beautiful river” because of the name Oyo (in Iroquois) but the river is very polluted. Berry says that the river receives an “abundance” of pollution from coal

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