Take This Job And Shove It By Theodore Roski

Just In It for the Nickels “I hate my job!” It is a statement that has been heard forever and one that will most likely be heard in the future. Nearly 70% of United States workers dislike their jobs (Gallup poll). Many American workers believe they need to work for the money. Not to contribute to society. The article “Take This Job and Shove It” greatly emphasizes this point and explains the uselessness of “Nickel and dime jobs.” The purpose of parallelism in Theodore Roszak’s article “Take This Job and Shove It” is to help convince the audience that the amount of jobs there are today are not necessary and most are not useful.
The idea of work not being a necessity in life sounds a little out there. It would take a lot of convincing to sway anyone.
Roszak’s utilizes parallelism in a very effective fashion. In a section of the article Roszak begins to explain what jobs are not needed. “Work that produces unnecessary consumer junk or weapons of war is wrong and wasteful. Work that is built upon false needs or unbecoming appetites is wrong and wasteful. Work that deceives or manipulates, that exploits or degrades is wrong and wasteful. Work that wounds the environment or makes the world ugly is wrong and wasteful” (369). Wrong and wasteful. The repetition of this phrase creates a relay in a person’s mind. Wrong and wasteful. Wrong and wasteful. Roszak takes the problem he sees and turns it into a face that the audience can remember. Applying parallelism to the problem really makes it stick out to the reader. The If Roszak would not have used parallelism in this part of the