Annie Proloux's "The Half-Skinned Steer" brings about the unique picture of what happens on a ranch when the butchering comes about. I can remember when our class went over this story and many people were saying how they couldn't believe that people were going through this type of thing and how skinning the steer really grossed them out. However as Sue puts it: "It's real life, it's what goes on at a ranch, especially during that time, everyone butchered their own animals." It makes me think how my classmates thought they were getting the meat in packages at a grocery store.
I come from a family that hunts, and it is a fact of nature that what you kill you eat and in order to eat what you kill it needs to be cut. I know it sounds gross but when an animal of any kind is being butchered you need to cut out all of the organs and most of the bones. It's a fact of life people. Most of us eat meat in order to get our protein and this story just shows how one family got theirs.