Language
This food source becomes very high in demand.
What is garbage?
This is the kind of narrator in “We Ate the Children Last”.
What is first-person?
This is the setting of the “We Ate the Children Last”
What is France?
This person was 56 years old when he received the first transplant.
Who is Patient D?
This is why the government decides to intervene.
What is the disappearance of old people and babies?
This is how all the people who received the transplant died.
What is starvation?
In the sentence “Then we ate the ones we loved the most,” who does “we” refer to?
Who are the children?
This is where all the people who received the transplant were sent.
What are internment camps?
This group lobbied for the poor.
What is Les Bons Samaritains?
This social problem is fixed by the using the porcine transplant.
What is malnutrition in poor people?
These words, similar in both English and French, are used in the story to help the reader believe and understand the setting.
What are cognates?
This literary device is used in the first paragraph of the story to generate tension.
What is foreshadowing?
This story presents a solution to a medical and a social problem that goes terribly wrong.
What is “We Ate the Children Last”?
This is the last known prisoner.
Who is Jean Proti?
The xenograft was a treatment for this disease.
What is colon cancer?
This horrifying act takes place in the story.
What is cannibalism?
This is the link between the “revolution of the gut” and bad eating habits in the story.
What is symbolism?
This is where crimes against humanity are committed.
What are interment camps?
This is who the author is criticizing in his story.
What is the scientific community and the government?
This is what the first patient begins to do shortly after the procedure.
What is eat like a pig?
This term is used in the story to describe the failure to consider what is the right decision instead of focusing on an easy fix.
What is moral rot?
“We have put into this man a source of energy both compact and powerful – a Ferrari engine!” is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
This is the reason that the story was set in France.
What is the value of French cuisine and the French Revolution?
This is the type of characterization in the story.
What is flat & static?
The first patient seems to be fine physically but presents this kind of problem.
What is psychological problems?