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From The Frying Pan Into The Fire Analysis

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Nowadays, doing work seems to be inseparable from everyone’s daily life throughout their whole lifetime. Basically, work means any activity or actions that people use their energy to accomplish something, and it could represent people’s effort in both physical and mental levels. For instance, when people are teenagers, they usually do the housework and schoolwork. As for the reasons why people do such works, people are always told by others like their parents and their teachers that: doing housework, like sweeping the floor and cleaning the dishes, enables teenagers gaining basic skills at home, and helps them alleviate some social pressure of their parents; doing schoolwork, like writing essays and making presentations, improves students’ academic performance, and plays a significant role in…show more content…
In this way, it seems to be unacceptable for us to regard people’s blind pursuit of work as merely a way of earning for their families. Thus, in order to explore the true reasons why people do work and how they value work, both authors give out their own explanation. Arlie Russell Hochschild, a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, observes in her reading of “From the Frying Pan into the Fire” that no longer people value works as purely family obligations that encourage people to work for supporting their families, people right now tend to value doing work as ways to have satisfied lives. And Kenji Yoshino, a professor of constitutional law at NYU School of Law, describes in his writing of “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights” that covering is “work,” meaning that in order to be accepted by others who may come from different environment, people tend to cover some of their distinctiveness by using their emotional and physical
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