Deeply Rooted Evaluation

Dahlia Lamarre
ENGL 102-016
Professor Santos

Book Evaluation: Deeply Rooted

The novel, “Deeply Rooted” written by Lisa Hamilton, is one of many series written to enlighten readers about farms and the industry of farming. In the United States, where farmers Harry Lewis, Virgil Trujillo and David Podoll all have a mindset in common, which is to keep farms healthy and still in business. Hamilton writes about their lifestyle to try to repair the way the industrialization takes care of the food Americans eat.

Virgil Trujillo who is a proud a farmer in the industry wants people of the country to come on and help with the environment he wants people to be more involved with what is going on in today's world. What's going on today, is that people who are ignorant about going green tend to make matters worse. This can largely affect the animals, agriculture and humans health. But they don't understand that. Another story who I enjoyed the most was David Podolls family and well being. David and his family own a small land and appropriates every bit of the land. The Podolls family, they are tight and what keeps them jointly involved is that piece of land, and family. When crops are grown on their land and ready to be picked, the Podolls family either sell it to make a profit or eat it. David, the man of the family feels that if machinery is used there is no appreciation being given as the machine works itself. I think what he means is that when you do things out of your own bare and heavenly body, you get the sense that hard work pays off. But not really when the machine does all the work.

Deeply Rooted for me I felt was quite long, but worth the read. The reason I say this, because as you read the author, Lisa Hamilton is giving facts after facts. She even does a great job at explaining the lives of the farmers and why they do what they do. For me this is a learning experience every time I pick up a book to read in class. One of the main reason is, because I did not know half the things I know now about the agricultural life.