Hard Work Annotated

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All over the world, people search of jobs so that money may be brought home for support and comfort. People have in mind what type of job is optimal for happiness, but what jobs are offered do not always meet those expectations. In the poem Hard Work, the man has been working at a cola factory and has started to resent work as a result of how repetitive and tedious the work is. Which is how people are today, getting up at 5am just to work, coming home to sleep to repeat the same actions the next day. At the beginning of the poem, it is said that the worker sees a man “piss into a coke bottle and put it back on the line” which shows that he is full of resentment toward his work and also leading in the man also having the same feelings about

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