Whether you have recently started working, you are right off the bat in your first job or you are an old professional, we all need a little motivation now and then to help ourselves to reach our goals. We all have to encounter numerous situation to succeed, some are negative and some are positive. In the story, “The Store,” by Edward P. Jones, the narrator does not appear to be a “goal-seeking animal,” but as he approaches to the solution of the story, he has started to go to the Georgetown University. He seems to have triumphed over circumstances, internal and external, that often stifle a person’s desire to succeed.
The story is about a young African American man’s working life during the time of racial discrimination. The narrator becomes an adult while working as a mail clerk in a local grocery story. He did not …show more content…
He then applied for the job and was hired by a black women named Penny Jenkins. In his first day, he had to clean out a very dirty side yard. He didn’t like penny that much either. He said “And a thousand times during the week I promised myself I would give her a week of work that only my father could surpass and then, come Saturday night, get my pay and tell her to kiss my ass” (142). As he mentioned, he worked as hard as he could, because he wanted to show Jenkins that he was worth something. He was also encouraged by his father’s voice. Even though his father was not alive when the story begins, he talked about his father as if he was still alive. This tells the reader of the story that the narrator admired his father. It shows that he always wanted to be like his father. When ever he had to encounter bad situations, he remembered his father’s wisdoms. He did what he thought his father would have done if his father was in his situation. His father’s wisdoms were one of the most important thing that helped him stay in the right path to
The story is about a young African American man’s working life during the time of racial discrimination. The narrator becomes an adult while working as a mail clerk in a local grocery story. He did not …show more content…
He then applied for the job and was hired by a black women named Penny Jenkins. In his first day, he had to clean out a very dirty side yard. He didn’t like penny that much either. He said “And a thousand times during the week I promised myself I would give her a week of work that only my father could surpass and then, come Saturday night, get my pay and tell her to kiss my ass” (142). As he mentioned, he worked as hard as he could, because he wanted to show Jenkins that he was worth something. He was also encouraged by his father’s voice. Even though his father was not alive when the story begins, he talked about his father as if he was still alive. This tells the reader of the story that the narrator admired his father. It shows that he always wanted to be like his father. When ever he had to encounter bad situations, he remembered his father’s wisdoms. He did what he thought his father would have done if his father was in his situation. His father’s wisdoms were one of the most important thing that helped him stay in the right path to