Entry#3: Summarizing Arguments

            In the first chapter of the book “Fast Food Nation”, its author Eric Schlosser mentions the founding fathers for the fast food chain. A man named Carl N. Karcher was one of the founding fathers. He dropped out from school in his early years of life and later followed his uncle to Anaheim, California for a new life. Eric Schlosser describes how Carl felt when he first came to the new land, “This is heaven,” he said after he saw the orange plantation and smelled the fresh air. Carl became rich by selling hot dogs in hot dogs carts and later owned hundreds of restaurants. The first Disneyland and McDonald’s were set near Carl’s first restaurant. When McDonald’s came out with a new self-service system, Carl did a copy of it and it was successful. As the town was developing, the environment changed and the same air never came back again. The plantation and the air symbolized how Anaheim was before the fast food era started. When more and more people migrate here, the “heaven” that Carl was in, disappeared.