FREE ESSAY ON PERPESPECTIVES ON AN ORANGE

PERPESPECTIVES ON AN ORANGE

When people think of oranges they see beautiful pieces of fruit, sweet and filled to its
rind with a gratifying nectar that sprays into your mouth with the first bite. It's
distinct and citrus fragrance can be smelled from across the room once its soft rind has
been cut. The orange's smell is juicy and sweet, and can be noticed with little effort
once the orange's peel has been sliced. In this photo, 'Have One', the orange in the
picture being held has been peeled halfway, spraying its beautiful citrus smell into the
air, persuading people to buy it. It is a paper label used for a crate to promote the
fruit they ship across the United States. But, underneath the initial meaning of this
picture lies a new perspective of where the orange originates and how it has defined and
given people many different views of California, and how looking at this picture brings
many personal memories of how oranges have effected me. 
At first glance, this orange having been grown in the spacious citrus fields of
California appears to be ripe, juicy, and ready to be eaten. In this picture it says,
"Have One" which displays how these farmers wish everyone would eat their nectar filled
fruits. The ripe, half-peeled orange and the blue background in the picture gives it
colors to help attract the human eye to the picture bringing attention to itself, and the
farmers, who tend the land and toil laboriously in the field for their oranges to be ripe
and perfect for sale. 
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Farmers want people to enjoy their oranges and the sweet nectar it holds. Oranges are
grown by hardworking people, who know how to grow the huge, luscious oranges that people
love. A lot of meticulous work goes into growing these oranges due to the vast size of
the orchid and the vast quantity of trees and oranges that the farmers must take care of
'. These oranges do not take days, but months to grow onto a healthy tree capable of
producing fruit. This process forces the farmers to take great care of their orange
groves due to the importance of every single orange being grown, because every orange
grown and sold is money in their pocket. These oranges must be nothing less than the best
when they reach market, because it is important for the farmers to raise the best fruit
in order to get people to continue buying it. In these fields millions of oranges are
grown for our benefit, and for the people in our country to keep them healthy and
satisfied. 
This brand name of oranges helped promote new and attractive images of California.
According to the Sequoia Citrus Association this label, "accentuated the image of
California as a land of plenty, innocence, beauty, and hard work," (Mc Quaid - pg. 17)
and due to this it promoted the citrus fruit these farmers ship all across the United
States. This paper label, having promoted images of California gave people a view of this
state, as they have never seen before. The orange promotes this idealized image of
California due to its appearance and rough texture. This label showed the tranquility and
beauty of California based on the nectar filled orange in the picture. It brings an image
of a huge orange grove with many orange trees, branches filled with oranges, blowing in
the whispering wind reaching its branches up into the beautiful, and colorful setting
sun. 
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This picture brings peaceful thoughts due to the whispering wind and the pleasant colors
of the vast field filled to the brim with trees that are stocked with beautiful oranges,
filled with sweet nectar. In addition to this image of an orange, the rough texture of
the orange brings many images of hard work. Day after day, farmers toil in their fields
trying to raise beautiful and healthy fruits for us to enjoy and eat, never thinking as
to why they do it. 
In addition to the perspectives I have mentioned about this orange in the picture looking
at it brings back memories of me as a child. At first, I remember being a little kid
playing recreational soccer every weekend throughout the year. In every single game I
played in, we would enjoy fresh and pure oranges as a snack at halftime. I do not ever
remember a game that did not have oranges for us to eat, and it seemed to me that it was
a tradition because for as long as I can remember we were given oranges every game. The
sweet citrus taste and the ripe fruit would give my team and I the energy to go out and
play the second half giving us the force to defeat the other team. These oranges were
valuable sources of energy for us every game. Not only did the oranges help fill our
stomachs and give us power for all that running, but the juices from the oranges, which
always ended on our faces, helped to quench our thirst. This was extremely valuable to us
because drinking to much water and running would give us extreme cramps leaving us out of
breath and hurting. The oranges helped solve that problem by giving us their sweet liquid
to quench our dry and desert-like throats. After I quit soccer an orange never tasted the
same, due to its gratifying taste when you are exhausted and dying of 
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thirst, but to this day I still love peeling open an orange and tasting its beautiful and
ripe flavor.
In conclusion looking at this picture, I saw many different perspectives of the orange
than just the advertisement saying, "Have One." Despite its initial message of persuading
people to try these oranges, it brought back memories of my childhood and it helped me
realize the many different sides a picture or an object has to it. It made me believe an
orange is not just an orange but a symbol for many different things. I have loved and
always will love the juicy nectar and the sweet fruit that comes with each bite into an
orange, and I do believe someday an orange will taste as good as it did to me when I was
a child on that soccer field.