hw for friday

Ms. Moire
Eng 102
Ariana Walker 8 AM
"Funeral Customs: Their origin and Development"

Every culture has customs that vary from addiction to cigarettes to eating chicken fetus(shout out). In this piece Burtram explores the sin eater tradition. He is educating the reader of this tradition that is different and will be out of many peoples comfort zone. The way the piece is written included a imagery, "...been known to slaughter an animal on a grave, in the belief that it would take upon the sins of the dead" (69). As far as graves go, whenever I am in a cemetery I am careful to not tread on graves as a sign of respect, or at least that is what I was told to do, and when I hear or read the word I immediately think of respect and peacefulness. A grave is a sacred place for many people I know and the image of a animal being slaughtered seems gross and savage and completly wierd for me to read slaughter and grave in the same sentence.