The Apple

“The Apple” from “Botany of desire”

“The Apple” from “Botany of desire”

Introduction

Michael Pollan's “The Botany of Desire” tells us the story of 04 well-known plants: the potato, the marijuana plant, the tulip, & the apple with the human desires that link their destinies to our own. Employing the history of tulips, apples, cannabis and potatoes to exemplify the compound, mutual association between natural world and humans, Pollan demonstrates how these species have fruitfully exploited human needs to thrive.

This paper discusses chapter 1: the Apple from the book “Botany of desire”. The apple mirrors the wish of sweetness.

Thesis Statement:

The Apple plant has been so significant for human being since it is the most preferred fruit of them and is represented in USA as a sign of liberty.

Discussion

The section “The Apple” from “Botany of desire” is very exciting. The readers found that they were not familiar with the fruit as much as they think. For instance, According to Bible, the fruit that Eve offers to Adam perhaps was not an apple, because of the geological position it is most possible a pomegranate. The rind and flesh of the apple is truly what people concentrate on as the good ingredient and this is also when pressed creates “apple cider” that was the drink of the colonists as they recognized that it was secure to drink not like (maybe poisonous) water. (Lloyd, 20-25)

I feel that we have done this, I have a love for this fruit. The society today is insisting on only a certain variety and we must be cautious that we are not being about an enormous mono-culture adversity for one of the most utilized fruits on the plant of these days. If we admire that the apple plant has taken progressive modifications to improve itself and grasp our view then perhaps we must assist it to branch out itself so that when any destructive pathogen comes its way, it might not get weak to the natural development and growth. (Pollan, 05-15)

Pollan uses a revisionist history of the American folklore figure Johnny Appleseed to demonstrate the remarkable success story of the apple tree, a nonnative species imported by early European colonists to America. The apple spread westward with the frontier settlers thanks to the efforts of John Chapman (1774-1845), a kind of “pagan” American folk hero who carried sacks of apple seeds in a canoe down the Ohio ...