From Serving in Florida
As a cellular immunology student, Barbara Ehrenreich would rather try hard to fit in a blue-collar’s live in Florida. Why did her made this job decision? And how she fell about these kind of lives? In her articles “From Serving in Florida”, as an undercover journalist, Ehrenreich records past personal experience working in a restaurant named Jerry’s, to reveals the difficult lives, the harsh, sub-human living and working conditions for low-paid workers in America. In order to exhaustively presents this social problem, Ehrenreich utilizes imagery and analogy, and builds up a crude tone in her article.
First of all, Ehrenreich vividly depicts the harsh working and living conditions by employing imagery. In order to building …show more content…
Starting with a summarized phrase “picture of a fat person’s hell”, she shows the negative side of kitchen by employing the olfactory sensation. Contradicted with the general concept that full with delicious food smell, the “unique and enigmatic Jerry’s scent” mixes with the “edible and the offal”. Immediately following with specific numerating the source of sense —— “creamy carrion”, “pizza barf”, “citrus fart” —— and easily achieved creating an imaginable smell, as things listed above are basic in lives, familiar to the public. (Ehrenreich, 394) With smell illusion set up, accumulation of dirty foods without cleaning up in time, as one key of aspects of kitchen’s nonstandard conditions, is vividly pointed out to the audience. Also, the sense of smell creates strong impulse for audience, trigging the uncomfortable and disgusting feeling, as it challenges their kitchen standard. Thus, as audience feel experience in person, resonate is built for the sympathy for low-paid unideal working environment for tolerating this smell. In addition, the public audience, which are costumers of restaurants in the real lives, will …show more content…
At first two days, she expresses her great release and sense of accomplishment, considering herself as “powerfully vindicated”, as “a survivor”, because of the colleagues’ “greeting” for the rare persistence for new workers on this job in the second day. (Ehrenreich, 395) Ehrenreich confirmed her difficulties of waitress job for her first day experience, trigging her the exaggerating effect on her emotion, express in the form of analogy to the “survivor” for the similar valuable brave spirit. (395) However, latter, Ehrenreich complain her job context of encountering costumers, with a shifting attitude, stating them in short for “enemy”. She numerated the “traditional asshole type”, including the “frat boys” and “Visible Christians”. (398) With derogatory term, “enemy” and “asshole”. Ehrenreich vividly describes peculiarity, selective demanding, annoying her, leading to the embarrassment situation, to reflect the disrespect attitude some of customers hold for low-paid work. In this case, Established barely disguised expressions her aversion toward this job content. Therefore, crude tone effectively presents the extreme of the author’s feeling, gaining the fact with more credibility and
As a cellular immunology student, Barbara Ehrenreich would rather try hard to fit in a blue-collar’s live in Florida. Why did her made this job decision? And how she fell about these kind of lives? In her articles “From Serving in Florida”, as an undercover journalist, Ehrenreich records past personal experience working in a restaurant named Jerry’s, to reveals the difficult lives, the harsh, sub-human living and working conditions for low-paid workers in America. In order to exhaustively presents this social problem, Ehrenreich utilizes imagery and analogy, and builds up a crude tone in her article.
First of all, Ehrenreich vividly depicts the harsh working and living conditions by employing imagery. In order to building …show more content…
Starting with a summarized phrase “picture of a fat person’s hell”, she shows the negative side of kitchen by employing the olfactory sensation. Contradicted with the general concept that full with delicious food smell, the “unique and enigmatic Jerry’s scent” mixes with the “edible and the offal”. Immediately following with specific numerating the source of sense —— “creamy carrion”, “pizza barf”, “citrus fart” —— and easily achieved creating an imaginable smell, as things listed above are basic in lives, familiar to the public. (Ehrenreich, 394) With smell illusion set up, accumulation of dirty foods without cleaning up in time, as one key of aspects of kitchen’s nonstandard conditions, is vividly pointed out to the audience. Also, the sense of smell creates strong impulse for audience, trigging the uncomfortable and disgusting feeling, as it challenges their kitchen standard. Thus, as audience feel experience in person, resonate is built for the sympathy for low-paid unideal working environment for tolerating this smell. In addition, the public audience, which are costumers of restaurants in the real lives, will …show more content…
At first two days, she expresses her great release and sense of accomplishment, considering herself as “powerfully vindicated”, as “a survivor”, because of the colleagues’ “greeting” for the rare persistence for new workers on this job in the second day. (Ehrenreich, 395) Ehrenreich confirmed her difficulties of waitress job for her first day experience, trigging her the exaggerating effect on her emotion, express in the form of analogy to the “survivor” for the similar valuable brave spirit. (395) However, latter, Ehrenreich complain her job context of encountering costumers, with a shifting attitude, stating them in short for “enemy”. She numerated the “traditional asshole type”, including the “frat boys” and “Visible Christians”. (398) With derogatory term, “enemy” and “asshole”. Ehrenreich vividly describes peculiarity, selective demanding, annoying her, leading to the embarrassment situation, to reflect the disrespect attitude some of customers hold for low-paid work. In this case, Established barely disguised expressions her aversion toward this job content. Therefore, crude tone effectively presents the extreme of the author’s feeling, gaining the fact with more credibility and