What If Vegetables Could Talk?

The book was written from the author’s ceaseless desire for knowledge and irresistible curiosity; he was astonished at the sight of tomatoes displayed in a garden organized by college students.The variety of tomatoes encouraged the author to explore its origin; most of the tomatoes were cultivated in America and transported to Asian countries.As the author researched the original

Two people, a man and woman were walking slowly, turning to a corner at the bottom of a hill. Squirrels chased each other back and forth on the telephone wires. The mother took a cellophane bag off a loaf of bread, looked outside, glanced at the squirrel and said “poor little thing”. She turned the bag away from her hand and stuck the squirrel in it. She buried it while the boy blubbered the whole time.

“Better put my time into that than moaning about the other all day” This is a quote by an elderly man named Wendell. Wendell, a character in the book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. In Seedfolks Wendell is troubled with the deaths of his wife and son. But he soon helps a little with her beans, then conversely became selfless.

Fruits and vegetables grow into a representation of Jeanette’s effort to maintain her behavior within the expectations of her mom and the religious community. As Jeanette initially became interested with Melanie, she gets Melanie to hang out with her as they meet on the street by offering, “Would you like a baked potato?” (85). Jeanette clearly demonstrated that she had a romantic obsession over Melanie before this moment, but after initiating conversation they do not bond over each other, but over God. The potato in this scene references Jeanette’s subconscious suppression of her romantic interest of Melanie, replacing it with a love for God that brings them together. After initially being caught experiencing unnatural passions with Melanie, Jeanettes mom offers, “`Here you are…. Some fruit. You're rambling in your sleep again. It was a bowl of oranges.” (114). Jeanette’s mom seems to have understood that Jeanette had unnatural passions for a long time, and is forgiving due to this being her first incident. Jeanette’s mom offers her these oranges as consolation, offering her help but also demonstrating that she and the church she represents are open to re-accept Jeanette if she follows the morals of the congregation. The orange is provided as an opportunity for Jeanette to suppress her sexuality for the church. Jeanette says “The skin hung stubborn, and soon I lay panting, angry

The raccoon crawled slowly, limping on one leg, his eyes deranged and blood-shot. Even though he was frightening to look at, the raccoon was guilty of nothing other than having a bad case of rabies. A young squirrel, ignorant to the fact that the raccoon was rabid, immediately told his family, who immediately told their friends, who told their cousins, who engulfed the whole forest in the viral rumor that the raccoon was a Bad One. The Bad Ones now threatened the sanity of a wooded area that was once as serene, beautiful, and close to Heaven as a bunch of trees could possibly get.

Potatoes became a staple in the diet of many as they were discovered around the world. They are still an important part of the diet of many today. ("International year of," 2008)

Potatoes began prospering with the Incan people in the Andes in the form of polyculture. The environment surrounding the Andes was harsh and unforgiving and where one type of potato would thrive, another would perish. The Incan people then changed their needs in order to satisfy the potato and began growing different types of each in different areas of the mountains. This method was extremely successful and resulted in massive genetic diversity for the potato. On the other hand, once potatoes were transported to Ireland, they underwent a change subject to human desires where only one type of potato was grown excessively, otherwise known as monoculture. The Irish had discovered that a single type of potato prospered in their soil and provided substantial nutritional support for the masses, resulting in the cultivation of a single genetic strand. The consequences of this endeavor would come later with the blight, but in this case, the potato had succumbed to the needs of humans. Lastly and more presently in the United States, potatoes have altogether lost their say in evolution by being grown only based on their requirement to feed the many. Certain strains of potatoes have become prevalent due to their need for food purposes, such as “perfect” French fries provided for restaurant chains. Besides

When we got to the top floor, Jon told me to be quiet because he had thought he heard something. We turned our flashlights off, and stood very still. We didn’t know if we were about to be face to face with a cop, a hobo, or maybe even Big Foot. After we had stood there for about 30 seconds I thought I heard scratching. I turned the flashlight on, and there he was, the biggest raccoon I had ever seen. We had to get doors from the second floor and did not want to deal with the raccoon, so Jon began chasing the raccoon with a screwdriver. At this point, I had no idea what to do so I just followed Jon and the raccoon with my flashlight. The raccoon ran down the stairs and out the door. After all the excitement, we decided to quickly get the doors loaded up and

Once upon a time there were three ugly witches on Cat Lane. They were taking a pumpkin at 292 Cat lane and it was a cat punkin they took and they cast a spell to the punkin. They went another house nearby Cat Lane and took all of their pumpkins and cast a spell on them. Then on Halloween they brought all the pumpkins back to all their houses and they had a spell so when someone walked by they got the spell and turned into a zombie. So there were these five little kids and they were going to get candy at 292 Cat Lane and they walk by the pumpkin and they all turned into a zombie. Then, they went to these group of people walking by and he touched all of them then then the one kid Matt said

Summary: This is the tale of a glasses-wearing mouse as he inspects the leftovers from the human’s Thanksgiving dinner. It is also an example of how being greedy can bring disaster. The mouse starts with a pea which is enough for a mouse, but as he finds more mouth-watering leftovers he begins to more and more to the grown stack he’s carrying. He only adds one of everything so that makes it okay. As the story continues and the stack gets higher, you just know it’s not going to end well for the mouse. Then enters the family cat. Don’t worry, no mice were eaten in the telling of this story.

There once was a boy named leafy who loved riding his bike. one day he was riding around and out of nowhere he hit a penny on the ground while he was braking. It made the back tire slide out and he fell. When he got back up he noticed that the penny was face up. He put it in his pocket and kept riding. As he turned the corner to his house he heard a noise as he looked back before he could see it there was a crow chasing him. he pedaled as fast as he could then an ally came. he crossed without looking and BOOM! Leafy was hit by a car. Leafy died in the hospital the next day. The next Friday was his funeral. when they were done they got to carrying the coffin. when they were carrying the coffin they said they could hear something but they thought

There he stood in the middle of the street. Luckily there were no cars coming so he ran right out of the street and started walking down the sidewalk. As he turned down the corner he heard a woman scream and he ran over to where he heard the scream. The thing was that he got there so quickly. The place was a mile away. The woman said a man shaped like a broccoli stole all the onions in the town.

mysteriously found dead in one of the rooms. Although he was highly esteemed for his wealth and

The potato seems to us today to be such a staple food that it is hard to believe that it has only been accepted as edible by most of the Western world for the past 200 years. Our story begins thousands of years ago, in South America—Peru,

New farming methods came to use during late 16th century. Farmers in many parts of Europe, including Ireland, France, started to raise potatoes. A plant from the “New World”, that for a long tome was seen with a big suspiciousness. A higher rate of potato