Analyzing My Text's Cultural Setting

In this blog post, I will be analyzing the setting in which my text was created in by answering "Questions We Might Ask When Analyzing the Text's Relationship to its Social and Cultural Setting".

"Twenty Questions". 8/27/11 via Wikipedia. Public Domain License,

1. Family values were brought up a few times in the article when stories were told about 4 people dying from explosions in their own home due to a natural gas build up underneath their house. There is a widespread belief that your home is where you're supposed to be safe but that isn't the case for several families because of this issue. That is a key point in the anti-fracking argument.

Company regulation by the government is a norm in America ever since the Great Depression. This was brought up in the article because these natural gas companies using hydraulic fracking are not being regulated at all by state or federal governments.


2. The text does address these values as I said in the form of stories about family members who have died suddenly from explosions in their home. The regulation of companies was also heavily discussed in all points of view mentioned in the article as that was one of the solutions they thought of.


3. The text seems supportive of these values and norms as the two men's arguments presented specifically brought them up. The reason fracking is a controversy is because people are remembering and asking questions about whether or not this is right to do. I don't think they are trying to modify these aspects of American culture, but rather to just not forget about them.