Working Anything But 9 To 5 Analysis

Jodi Kantor’s article, “Working Anything but 9 to 5,” works to expose the ambiguous scheduling system that many service and retail industry workers face week by week. At the time of its publish date, August thirteenth, two thousand-fourteen, this New York Times article follows the struggling life of Jannette Navarro, who is a young, single mother, whose life is torn between her job as a Starbucks Barista, and as a mother of a young four year old boy named Gavin. Jodi Kantor, whom is already a successfully published author, recently published her own book, “The Obamas,” which was a national best seller, told the story of Barack and Michelle adjusting to their new life in their new positions and the struggles that they endured in trying to keep …show more content…
Rhetorically, the article “Working Anything but 9 to 5,” is more than just a boring article that presents facts and an issue to its readers. When analyzing, we can see that Kantor made conscious decisions when writing this story. Decisions that would completely determine the retention rate of her audience’s attention, given this story was more than a handful of pages long. Kantor successfully places the story in an easy, digestible story board that more than effectively communicates to the wide spectrum of her audience. Kantor goes above and beyond to show readers the bigger picture apart from the underlying problem of this restrictive form of employment. She chooses to tell a story, organizing it in sequential chapters some that resemble an introduction, conflict, climax, and somewhat of a resolution. From introducing the admirable character by the name of Jannette Navarro in order to evoke more empathy in her readers to using Gavin in a way to appeal to parents emotions visually, one cannot simply say that this was all done on accident, especially not with this author’s writing