Rhetorical Analysis Of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel And Dimed
Mohammed Arif
Kristi Moos
English 104
27 September 2014
Living in America
Barbara Ehrenreich is an author of article called “Nickel and Dimed”. Barbara Ehrenreich is a down-to-earth, skilled journalist with a Ph.D. in biology. Barbara is someone does not try to be what she is. She is the kind of woman that leaves everything aside and going to experience different life in America. . In the article Barbara tells about herself as a journalism going thru a low-wage job from her normal life, and she show how her life is different from what she was before. By her experience she shares what it is like for unskilled women to be in low-wage job. Barbara uses many rhetoric techniques explaining about her lifestyle, poverty, and American dream. …show more content…
What Barbara has written to the reader is true in most cases; if the person can withhold a low-wage job for long enough, with a low-wage salary in order to keep him/her and their family out of poverty. “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're selling is your life” (245). In this quote she saying anyone who spends their life time in their job will be guaranteed equals a better life. This is why I agree with her because I was also worked in body shop as low wage worker and I found that if I don’t work enough my wage will go down and the days that I worked hard and overtime I had more money to save for future.
Barbara in her story shows how bosses in America are unfair to their workers and they are being treated unfair. -------One of part of her story she saying workers are not getting enough labor that they can’t keep their living with one job. She said working in restaurant in not enough to keep a better life, so she decided to go work another job. She also showed workers in her age and her physical body it’s impossible to handle two
Kristi Moos
English 104
27 September 2014
Living in America
Barbara Ehrenreich is an author of article called “Nickel and Dimed”. Barbara Ehrenreich is a down-to-earth, skilled journalist with a Ph.D. in biology. Barbara is someone does not try to be what she is. She is the kind of woman that leaves everything aside and going to experience different life in America. . In the article Barbara tells about herself as a journalism going thru a low-wage job from her normal life, and she show how her life is different from what she was before. By her experience she shares what it is like for unskilled women to be in low-wage job. Barbara uses many rhetoric techniques explaining about her lifestyle, poverty, and American dream. …show more content…
What Barbara has written to the reader is true in most cases; if the person can withhold a low-wage job for long enough, with a low-wage salary in order to keep him/her and their family out of poverty. “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're selling is your life” (245). In this quote she saying anyone who spends their life time in their job will be guaranteed equals a better life. This is why I agree with her because I was also worked in body shop as low wage worker and I found that if I don’t work enough my wage will go down and the days that I worked hard and overtime I had more money to save for future.
Barbara in her story shows how bosses in America are unfair to their workers and they are being treated unfair. -------One of part of her story she saying workers are not getting enough labor that they can’t keep their living with one job. She said working in restaurant in not enough to keep a better life, so she decided to go work another job. She also showed workers in her age and her physical body it’s impossible to handle two