Animals and Humans

 Author's Note: Humans can treat animals wrong, but animals are people too.

Have you ever thought about what your hamburger is made of while eating it? How the cow has been in a confined area almost its entire life just waiting to be slaughtered for humans to enjoy? In the story Man vs. Beast, by Robert Muchamore a struggling group of Animal Liberationists are fighting to save these animals and stop animal abuse through violence. Muchamore uses realism and society to make this book give readers a mixture of feelings.

There are many groups that would stop this way that animals are treated. Some examples are PETA and the ALF. They mostly keep their actions at a passive state but sometimes things get out hand. In Man vs. Beast, This group tries to express itself by using violent protest and attacks on workers who work at animal testing labs. Throughout the book these protests and visits to animal holding compounds really visualize how poorly these animals are treated

The realism here in this book is the icing on the cake. A mixture of sadness and disgust overtakes you when you read about how they travel to a holding for experimental dogs. How they’re locked up in a cage with nothing to do and smelling terrible. Imagine seeing this for yourself. I would feel terrible just seeing them in there and feel like I have to do something. These are some recruitment methods used by other organisms like this; showing people what’s really going on and make them take a stand. Using society also helps the mixture of emotions in this book.

Society is key to this book. Using all these people who don’t know about this and showing them what is actually going on behind the red curtain is effective. This just sets off a chain reaction those people will tell more and this chain will continue until pretty much the whole world knows about it. it will go rather slow , telling all these people and proving what really goes on is hard work. In the end it is worth saving the lives of these tortured animals. 

Using society and realism gives the meaning to this story and it sends a message to the world. It can provide great emotional mixture and persuade many to do something and support these groups.