ARA Review by Ogiyaonke Kilili of Eating Bull

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ARA Review by Ogiyaonke Kilili of Eating Bull

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[Following is an OnlineBookClub.org ARA Review of the book, Eating Bull.]
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eating bull by Carrie Rubin is a book filled with laughter, emotions, a complex sense of humor, and variety of lessons in one book. Rubin introduces this book with a short passage which leaves you wanting more, therefore I rate this book 4 out 5 stars.

Our communities in mostly influence and shape who we are. We often categorize ourselves with people of the same kind in our communities in order to feel better about ourselves or situations; “birds of the same feathers/ flock fly together.” I have seen comedians and other professionals hide their situations with their work or personality, but admitting your problem is change and learning. The author starts the book with Jeremy’s story which includes seven characters who form part of his community.

Obesity is a problem especially if not maintained whilst youth or child, because one grows with habits that may harm the next generation if not the current, therefore Jeremy is the “eating bull” with his ex-soldier grandfather “Dick Barton and two working jobs mother, whom is a single parent, “Connie” she’s named. Connie’s surname would explain her background in terms of her levity, but since we are not told I’ll assume she was not married before, therefore her body had been one of the reasons her love life is not smooth as Rex seems to not be interested much in her, even grandpa could see Rex’s actions.

Middle class and poor woman are mostly taken advantage off and worse, if you are not beautiful, emotionally weak, and mentally disturbed or stressed as Connie. Jeremy’s family seemed Pordarican/or Mexican, if not English which I doubt. The message of this passage is that one has to learn to be honest to self and try all they can to face reality or situation. Every situation has an opposite or for every disadvantage there is an advantage; it’s not easy murdering or beating an obese person, if a muscled person would get injured, they would bleed heavy compared to an obese person.

Darwin is the author’s next chapter whom successfully murdered an obese person. The reason for the murder is the negativity that people have on obese people which Jeremy was complaining about. Darwin lives in all the Politicians who make laws in people’s lives without caring about those particular people; hospitals in fully urbanized countries are filled with obese people whom depend on public clinics or hospitals like the CCPHC, and politicians are the ones promoting unhealthy community lifestyle so to exploit and loot communities using urbanization. Darwin lives in our minds and visible in our actions;

The more we speak negative to and about obese people the more we kill them or the more they kill themselves with shame, in-confidence, lies covered by humor, and the more they become suicidal, if not serial killers. Obesity is a genetic condition just like other immune conditions so we should not think nor treat others as if they are not human, at least Sue understands that, even though her bosses don’t agree with her. Sue’s colleagues (Gunther Shelly and Gabrielle Esposito) had allowed their superiors to hand in a morbid obese child to forester parents as the child had been admitted for parental negligence, Sue worried that the forester parents were not known or properly interviewed.

The author seems to be a primary source of these situations especially chapter 1 and 3, as stated of author’s amazing humor at times it can be too much especially, in Kayler’s description. The author is filled with hilarious exaggerations and imaginations that maybe cause spelling errors; “…scrubs-clad, elf-sized nurse…, “Jeremy Barton!”” /or “the nurse tsked her tongue” and if I have maybe found of being in the same state too, please do help me correct such error as well. We are all human beings.

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