Nickel And Dimed: Rhetorical Analysis

While writing my book review of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, I discovered that there are a few occasions where I can relate to what the author is trying to portray. A person working for minimum wage can also relate to this, because it’s about the people working low-wage jobs in America. I learned a lot while writing this paper. I learned about how we don’t pay attention to the people working minimum wage and how they try to survive with making that sort of wage. I mostly learned how some of my experiences working for minimum wage are what people face in everyday life. At least my experience was only for about two months and I had a chance to quit, but people who work for minimum wage in their normal life are the one’s who are doing all the backbreaking work that sometimes we take for granted for. After reading this paper, I would like for reader to appreciate the people working for minimum wage and to see their struggles in everyday life. …show more content…
I had a few difficulties on deciding what quotes I wanted to use to make sense of the questions that were asked. I learned that next time while reading I should take more extensive notes about what I think might be important. Another difficult aspect that took me hours was to summarize the book in less than 400 words. It took me a couple of times, but I think that I managed to get less than 400 words. I think my strengths of this paper are the process of selection. This is the part of the paper where I got to include my own personal experience and how does that affect how I view the book. If I were to revise process of selection I would add more points about how people in my community are affected by earning the minimum and their experience in the