Soup Is My Lifeblood Analysis

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With so many different people living in the world, there are bound to be differences of opinion and how we all look at things. Even when reading the exact same essay, we interpret it different based on how we grew up and what we have been exposed to. For example, in the essay “Soup,” it is easy to assume that Yeganeh is all about soup when he says “Soup is my lifeblood” in the first sentence. When he says “I am extremely hard to please” I would assume he is talking about his employees and the work that they do. I could also see how he could be referring to the customer when they don’t follow his “rules” and he is not a happy man. Yeganeh states he once found a mushroom on the floor and he fired the guy who left it there. The writer is trying

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