Literary Analysis Essay on "The Talking Tree"

Introduction

From the story of "The Talking Tree," several concepts have been delivered. Some of these concepts include the Agriculture, politeness, life struggle, and means of survival in life as well as hard work. Similarly, in the story of "Pity for Living Creature," the dependency on the natural environment as well as animal consumption by a human, are the critical concept discussed. It is an explanation to show the need or the importance to conserve the creatures and help them multiply for isostasy dependence on each other by humans. Therefore, the paper will discuss the philosophical analogy regarding conserving the environment through agricultural practices. Also, I will discuss the cultural traditions regarding the means of survival of the Jewish community through agriculture.

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The agricultural practice is one of the cultural elements that has been embraced and said to have begun from different analogies. The environmental conservation is the key concept across which cultural activities such as agriculture emerged. In respect to that, the evolving dependence on agriculture has been the sole source of the people's income. It is believed that the conservation of the environment is a critical aspect to save both trees and human life (Winsberg, 434). In our society, the community has ventured in the continuous agricultural practices that have, in one way or another, conserving the environment. The main agricultural activity involved in the community includes crop farming as well as animal keeping. It is a cultural practice that has sustained our community for decades, and now with new methodologies and technologies, the agricultural practices keep changing to advancement. From the historical background and perception of agriculture in the community barely states that it was from the need to conserve and maintain the ecology that the practice developed.

The cultural food of our community, the Jewish community, we mainly dwell on the grains, vegetables as well as fish consumption. That reason, the community has always tried to maintain agricultural produce as their source of food as well as income. The origin of the agricultural practice was influenced by consumption as well as vast fertile lands in ancient times. Secondly, the availability of the waterbodies was also a great source of the fish, thus leading to fishing activity (Winsberg, 428). The availability of such resources manipulated the agricultural activities that have been embraced in decades of years to date. It has also enabled the community to manage the environment and create a versatile ecology to live in through agriculture. The gender roles also arose from the agricultural activities whereby the main work of men was to clear the bushes for planting while children and women were engaged in tilling the land.

In the recent experience in life, the culture has assimilated several practices. It is through some life dynamics that include depletion of resources as well as increased population. As a result, agricultural practices have significantly declined to shift slowly to the industrialized culture. The vast land that initially existed they no longer sufficient due to increased population that can neither be supported by agriculture on the small pieces of lands nor can it sustain the economic and diversity of the economy (Aaronsohn, 449). The community has embraced the new ways of life whereby business and trading has been the main practice in the cities and community. Concerning that, industries have been set to induce and supply high amounts of population demands. New technology has also taken away the manual and community togetherness that they had in tilling the land. Water pods and integrated machines are used to plow and cultivate the land whereby gender role is no longer embraced. The reformation and acquisition of education have also diversified the cultural practices that have led to low inputs in agricultural practices.

Works Cited

Winsberg, Morton D. "Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Entre Rios, Argentina, II: Religious-Oriented Social Institutions amid East European Ghetto Culture." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 27.4 (1968): 423-428.

Aaronsohn Ran. "The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Agriculture in Palestine:" Indigenous" versus" Imported." Agricultural history 69.3 (1995): 438-453. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3744337