Facing the Village of Lenore Look and An Eyesore of God by Barbara Kingsolver It is normal to acquire common human attributes, yet Americans seem choose them and choose how they want to acquire these traits, whether excessively or minimally. In both readings, “Facing the Village” by Lenore Look and “A Fist in the Eye of God” by Barbara Kingsolver, the authors present many human attributes and the pros and cons of the way Americans behave. In “Facing the Village,” Lenore Look begins to be the typical ignorant, greedy, arrogant, and unstable judge of how to trust someone American. After visiting China, where her parents' home village is located, she realizes what Americans, like her, are really like and how dissatisfied they are with life. In “An Eyesore of God,” Kingsolver also explains how Americans want to change things and don't appreciate the natural world as it is. The attitude of human beings towards life and the people around them is the reason why people feel dissatisfied with their lives in contemporary America. Americans' ignorance gives them a feeling of alienation from nature and culture that makes them feel dissatisfied with their life in modern America. Kingsolver argues that due to a lack of scientific knowledge, people try things they have no experience with and don't know the long-term outcome. It describes how people neglect learning science and don't realize how much is behind it. He writes, “Scientific illiteracy in our population is leaving too many unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are causing to our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths” (Kingsolver, 205). Kingsolver is referring to the damage to the environment caused by ignorance. If people knew more about the effects of our actions on the environment, they would not feel so separated from nature and would not have so many environmental and life-threatening problems that become sources of unhappiness. In another way, being ignorant, Lenore Look realized that it is easy to take advantage of her life in America and that the results of our actions do not allow us to appreciate life and simply leave us dissatisfied. He begins by talking about the refusal to “act” as Chinese; when her parents spoke to her in Chinese she responded in English.