My Year of Meats

My Year of Meats. This is definatley a bookt aht I would not have chosen on my own to read. However boring and depressing I found it in the beginning I found that I really enjoyed it as the book progressed toward the end. The book is filled with an array of controversies that we face on a daily basis. We have to battle with the pressures of work, try to ballence as we see fit between what our boss says and how we are going to mamage to get the job done. We also have to maintain a social life dealing with the pressures of a relationship and trying to stay in controll of our own lives. I find that Akiko has lost all sense of self in the beginning of the novel being consumed by her culture and the marriage to her husband. It has also been overtaken by her and "John's" yearning for a child and his hateful and abusive ways. The more he is abusive the greater need she finds to change her life. In the end of the novel she becomes a strong woman, leaving behind the traditions and the customs that she know for a life she wishes for. It might not be the most ideal or perfect life but it is more ideal than the one she is living. Also, Jane is a woman who is lost in herself and does not have an identity. She wants to be one of the guys but also keep a separate identity to define herself. she wants to have a child but is unable. she researches the production of meet and find that they are pumping it full of antibiotics and drugs that are fatal to humans and makes children mature at a very young age due to the hormones being pumped into the meet. The end of the novel was great because there was resolve to each situation. Not necessarly a happy or perfect ending but we were given an answer to the question of who these people were and set their lifes back on track. It was a very intreguing book.