FFN's author

The only thing I expected of Eric Schlosser's speech was that it was about his book. I thought he would basically just talk of the same things written on his book. It wasn't really all that. Honestly, his speech/talk was interesting and inspiring. I someday want to become an author and a glimpse on him is a glimpse on who or what an author is and does. He is a pretty cool one, for an author of a book such as Fast Food Nation. He spoke of truth and he made me think really hard about what he wrote and about writing itself in such a subtle way. What I mean is, he did not spoke of these things the way a scholarly person would -- which would be pretty boring. He was very comfortable and confident of his words.

I found the question and answer part and the second part, the one in B 214, more interesting though. For one, the students' questions were quite brilliant and well thought-out. Though some of Eric's answers did not directly answer some of the questions, it was still interesting. Some of the parts that I remember clearly were when he talked about him trying to quit smoking and when he kept mentioning that he likes eating fast food. These are things a typical person does, but hearing it from a person who wrote a book about the fast food industry's negative side made these things quite different. One thing that still makes we wonder though is what the main theme of his book is. There were various important topics discussed and what he said when a student asked him what is the real main theme of his book is, I believe he said it was about the immigrant's and meatpacker's life working in the meatpacking industry. It just does not seem to me like the real main theme.