20. Save the Whales, screw the Shrimp

Joy Williams wrote this essay, "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp", directed towards the human race, and explaining how nature is being ruined by us. Although the human race is a giant part of this earth, and not everyone can be blamed for the ruin of nature, she claims that we all have a role in this destruction. That is, except herself. The author is constantly upraising nature, as one would usually do with God. In the end the author blames the reader, and all of humanity, for the killing of Nature.


In her essay, the author uses all of the rhetoric devices, (logos, pathos, and ethos) in order to make her writing more effective. Williams writes in a way that gives herself authority over all humans, and portrays her sense of pride and arrogance. The author uses quotes from outside sources, and does have evidence for her claims. However, her writing is so influenced by anger and resentment, that the reader is not able to take Williams seriously. There is a hopeless and depressing tone used by the author that influences the reader. At one point she even makes a claim that the reader does not "believe in Nature anymore." This is the appeal to pathos, used by the author very frequently, in order to make the reader feel bad. The author uses the second person to make the reader feel blamed and guilty, as if it were the reader's fault for the killing of animals in the world. According to Williams, we can't do anything to change the situation since, according to her, we are all too late for nature.

20 Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimps

One of the greatest damage made by human kind is the environmental damage. In this article the author tells the reader about the different damages made by human kind to the environment. Human has destroyed this planet because of our selfishness and ignorance to the planet. The author explains how ironically we say that we regret or that we should change when we are the ones constantly damaging the planet more and more. He also explains how one problem always leads to another and how those problems become fatal to the animals sometimes. In the end, he concludes that is we stop being ignorant and selfish, the world won´t be this damaged and people can help to change the world.

Joy Williams, the author of this article uses and very different way to write this article. He emphasizes his idea with strong words, and words that will call the attention of the reader. In the tone of the writer, you can see his frustration over the ignorance of people towards the environment. Not only that, he also gives different evidences about his argument. He also uses a more of informal language in order to connect better with the reader. Also, the Williams reaches out with the reader in order to affect the reader emotionally such as guilt, and in the end shows the reader that he or she can be different by being less ignorant. 

20. "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp"

     The environment has been a never ceasing topic in literature, media, and even photography. Yet, why is it that we despise these subjects when encountered by them? The answer, according to the author Joy Williams, is rather simple: we reject it in order to avoid dealing with it. After all, the environment has become a result of human indecency. Consequently, we have damaged the environment to the point of no repair. Due to our selfishness, we have treated nature as a form of entertainment with the creation of zoos,parks and tourism, and have taken for granted the natural resources for our own benefits with the constant investments on irrigation ditches and deforestation. In conclusion, humanity is the only one to blame for the overwhelming environmental crisis we face today. Yet, many times we try to avoid this fact and blame it on politics or even science or technology. The solution to this, as suggested by Williams, is a radical shift of fundamental attitudes towards the earth. We must change the way we think and therefore act differently towards the attitudes we have been taking.
     The author of this article, Joy Williams, writes in a very unique style which works very effectively. Throughout the entire essay, Williams presents a somewhat hypothetical conversation between her and the reader. Several times she refers to the readers as "you" creating a rather colloquial conversation between the reader and the author. This is very effective as it captivates the readers generating interest throughout the entire essay. One interesting point of her essay was how she  openly criticized the reader, somewhat blaming the critical state of the environment on the audience. Yet, this works because there is some truth behind everything she criticizes. In a way, Williams makes the readers feel purposely guilty in order to criticize not only the reader but society in general. Williams' creative writing was very interesting and simply genius in my opinion. I enjoyed this article and commend Williams for her unique writing skills.

20. Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp

       Joy Williams, the author of this powerful article, talks about how people mistreat and do not care about the environment anymore. She guilt trips the readers fore eating the abruptly killed animals and into thinking about the ads or photographs about them that they just ignored or simply did not want to think about it. Williams gives many examples of how humans refuse to think about others, the animals, and act completely selfish; farmers using poison on their crops, shrimp and shrimpers refusing the use TED and completely ignoring the fact that the nets used to catch the shrimps kill other turtles, fish and dolphins. She criticizes tourism stating that it brought more buildings and pollution, which leads to acid rain and causes the destruction of wildlife. She concludes by saying that such environmental problems are hard and take time to fix, she blames society for thinking that nature is some sort of human material when truly it is something to be appreciated. At the end, the reader can realize that by changing the way he ignores the harm humans do to the environment, he can help make a bigger change.

        This article was very informal and all over the place. The author uses “you” and “I” many times and she jumps from one subject to another which can make her article at times confusing. Her purpose was obviously to inform the reader about the harm and mistreatment that men do on a daily basis. She accuses the reader of being conscious of all the injustice men do; however, he chooses to ignore it rather than taking a stand. Her essay is a very fast paced essay and she creates an emotional appeal towards the reader. The informality and emotions cause the reader to relate to her and somewhat agree with her; making him think again before ordering a burger. For the reader who did not know about the mistreatments she was talking it is certainly an eye opener and causes them to feel guilty and pity all those who were harmed; which is her purpose. Williams had strong arguments and expressed herself very well throughout the whole article, standing up to what she believes is right.

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20. Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp

           The author of this article, Joy Williams, starts already demonstrating an ironic tone. She introduces herself and then starts the article by accusing the reader, in some way, in a ironic matter. She says we all are thinking too much only about ourselves and not the important blessings of Nature we are given. The author has strong feelings towards nature and how we take it for granted these days. She uses plenty of examples to show how people these days do not care that our natural resources are being depleted, they care only of consuming and satisfying their own momentary needs. I found it interesting and kind of sad when she said that pictures of nature do not impress people any more like they used to. Nature is today taken for granted and used to satisfy the momentary needs of people. The author talks about farmers and how they do not regard what they do to nature when they put all those chemicals on their crops just for a bigger profit. She says that these types of behaviours are the behaviors that are effecting the earth negatively more and more. She then mentions shrimp popularity and how there is over- fishing of these animals which usually end up harming other species such as turtles. Another example the author gives is tourism. She argues that tourism is making people think less of preserving the so precious nature to make places more appealing to tourists, resulting in a bigger profit for the tourism companies. The author is not happy with all the disregard nature is suffering with these days. It can be implied that the author is worried about our nature and how much it will last in the coming years. She then makes a point that hit me strong in some way because of it's truth. She says that nature and life in Earth is turning to be all synthesized as humans change everything to be good and comformed to how we want it to be. She also blames big industries that mass produce plastic products for the degradation of our Earth. The author argues that it is their human selfishness that ends up ignoring the harm of the products on nature, thinking only of the profit that is to come. She writes all these examples to touch the reader to do something about this topic. She says this is not only a good thing to do, but the moral right decision to make.
           The author of this article starts since the beginning with an ironic tone that shows her point of view in the first paragraphs. It can be easily implied that the author is determined that the enviromnent is being treated in this matter, like a profit giving thing. She finds this ridiculous and some dark humor can be located to show how strongly she feels about this. She uses personal pronouns a lot to show this is something everyone is a part of and that we all should change. The author is successful in transmitting her message as she clearly states her point of view and gives evidence to make the reader feel bad for disregarding nature. She does not talk in a formal way for the range of readers not to be limitted to scholars only. She believes this is a problem for everyone and so she uses this type of language. The author appeals to emotion for the readers to feel guilty for acting this way. She wants us to think differently and she is successful in doing that in this article.

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20. Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp

This article is Joy William's personal rant about how people have been treating the environment recently. She talks about how people have forgotten and neglected the environment and how they have selfishly traded nature for condos and big supermarkets. She also accuses the readers of knowing how much they're harming the environment yet choosing not do anything about it. She criticizes farmers for disregarding nature and 'poisoning' the crops. She also criticizes the shrimp eaters and the shrimpers, for not only killing enormous amounts of shrimp but turtles and fish and dolphins.Williams says its almost like people hate green area and that people would rather see wildlife get destroyed. She says that nature has become nothing more than a 'mere source of materials' to humankind and we have spent so much time editing it that we are now deleting it. Although Williams uses dark humor, we can tell how worried she is for the condition of the earth.

 Throughout the article, Joy uses an ironic tone, almost like the mistreatment of the environment was so absurd that she can't wrap her head around it. Her writing is fast-paced and she sometimes uses choppy sentences to make her point. Williams uses a conversational tone throughout the article and uses more personal pronouns than most articles about the environment would. She uses many rhetorical questions to emphasize her sarcastic tone and ends the article with a very informal "see you later."Joy also carries a accusing tone while describing the damages made in the environment, pointing fingers to all her readers. While at times, being overly sarcastic and even aggressively attacking the readers, Williams brings out the good point that we all need to start making changes and this is emphasized on the last paragraph. She encourages her readers to not only to make a change in our personal consciousness and treat the earth respectively, but to behave and think differently.

20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

Joy Williams, the author of this article, talks about the environment. She discusses about how in today's society, people are not treating the environment correctly. She mentions that today, the community uses the environment for their own selfish reasons. She gives us many examples of how the environment is being harmed, such as, farmers using poison to manipulate crops to grow faster, cutting down trees and forcing animals to move out for people to have more space, and the shrimp fishing industry causing the shrimp extinction. After describing many events of how the environment is being harmed, Williams strongly proposes a solution. She warns us that the environment will not become better if we continue to harm it instead of aiding it.

Joy Williams writes a smooth article. She expresses her thought in a conversational way, making it exciting to read. In her essay, it seems as if she is very passionate about the environment. The tone of the article demonstrates her desire to change the environment and her hatred towards the people harming the environment. Overall, this article fulfilled its purpose. Williams delivered her informative message in a casual way, which makes it very effective to the readers attention.

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