Clean Shave Chapter Summary

Caitlin is a very interesting writer and she wrote about a very interesting subject. Starting the book, I had no expectations for what it was going to be like and the first chapter took me by surprise. Day one at her new job, she had to give an old man a clean shave. Normally, people learn the ropes of the whole business for the first few days but she was thrown in right away to shave a man’s face. Luckily, she said she did a great job from the evidence that the family did not notice if she had shaved him wrong. She wrote that her new boss and given her the tools and very little guidance and she had to shave the man for the viewing that would take place that day. The shave was obviously necessary just for the fact that no one wants to look at baby stubble. I think that shaving a dead body would be weird at first but one of the easiest tasks to do later on when I knew the other types of things I would have to do.
Day two of her job, Caitlin was fortunate enough to set eyes on Padma. She described her as a black voodoo witch and was completely disgusted by her body. As she continued on with the book she wrote about having to cremate the bodies. She would first have to go to the “fridge” and pull out the right body. She even wrote having …show more content…
She is humorous and is not afraid to say what she means. She doesn’t hold back the truth and it is slightly morbid but she keeps you interested the whole time because the tone of her voice is interesting. Throughout reading all of this, it seemed like she had a lot of sarcasm and it is an awesome way to read the book. One random thing that I like that she did in the book was, she tended to either cut herself off in certain places to add in something or to make a point even more clear, she should make connections to things so we could relate more. I think that she did a great job on the book and I learned a lot of things from a different point a