1. The premise of “JOE AND EDNA” is that Joe’s inability to see past his wife’s plea to strike for a better wage proves the huge misbalance of corporations and the common folk although the main argument is the disparity in hope. Edna urges that there is no money but solely for rent. “You got two blondie kids…they need food and clothes” (Odets 9). Joe believes that this is all they can achieve at the moment, that even if he were to rise above, it could ultimately backfire. “We’re averaging six-seven dollars…that is something, Edna” (Odets 10). It is evident that Joe’s idea of surviving is too maintain stagnate. Odets pushes Joe’s rhetoric to instill the idea that although fighting for a better wage and going against your superiors is an uplifting …show more content…
2. There is a yin-yang effect portrayed with Joe and Edna. The yin is known as dark and negative while the yang is a representation of light and positivity. How do they fit into these symbols? It is noted throughout the entire vignette that darkness surrounds and clouds Joe’s judgment, ultimately making him weak. He portrays qualities of someone who is defeated and unwilling to change. Edna represents that light/change and is the more positive character. Her strength and willingness to see through the conflict is what ultimately helps them come to a resolution. Both characters complement each other much like the yin and yang, channeling their energy to create harmony in their lives. 3. The most important issue brought in the episode is the division amongst the working class and capitalists. It is quoted that “times are bad,” (Odets 8) and if Joe could get another job he would. Edna makes an argument to further stress this division by saying “your boss is making suckers outo you boys” (Odets 10), as a way to say that his superiors don’t care about him or his family. Competition amongst workers during the great depression enabled the reduction in wages or has Edna states, “they’ll push you down to three and four a week before you know it” (Odets 10). This dialogue is what would ultimately make a reader understand that if you didn’t fight for a better wage, a business would ultimately decide your fate. Companies aren’t in business to pay your expenses but only to make a profit. Edna quotes, “the world was supposed to be for all of us” (10). It is heavily implied that communism is denounced to anyone who suggests that businesses should be in favor of the working class. Edna tries to instill the idea that what was happening to their family was morally wrong and that change is needed for their sake and for others.
Joe Starks loves money so much that he puts everything behind. Which is why his marriage with Janie probably will fall apart. When the people at a town meeting, ask for a speech from Janie, she feels excited. She had never made a speech anymore and did not know what to say. However, she is shut down
Response: Andrew Carnegie, George Eastman, and J.P. Morgan are captains of industry because they are philanthropists. Eastman is a philanthropists because he donated over 30 million to the college ¨U of R¨ and supported dental clinics for people who could not afford it. He did this because he is a good person and a leader. Morgan is a philanthropist because he donated 60 million dollars federal government. He did this because he is a good person and a leader. Carnegie donated more than 350 mill and build over 2,500 libraries. He is philanthropist and a strong
Johnson did use the word session very repetitively . I think it's because he wanted to inform the people that congress and he are working hard to make an influence on America. For him to mention how the session has accomplished over the last year and how hard they word really shows that they care about the American people. It makes the audience feel like they can come out of poverty with his plans. The imagery you used I like it remains me of the saying the sun will always sunshine no matter what. Johnson gives a lot of hope to the people by being personal and he also had a firm voice and action plan. This made congress and the people feel like they have a sense of trust with
The purpose of the novel, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, is to inform the public of issues pertaining to low wage jobs through the three rhetorical devices ,such as, pathos, logos , and ethos. Ehrenreich emerges herself into the life of a low wage worker to demonstrate the difficulty of living a healthy life under these conditions. She includes the rhetoric devices to create a persuasive argument and to gather support for her claim. The minimum wage is too low, enabling the working class from living a healthy life. She studies this issue through an experiment of one month of living on just a salary from low wage jobs.
Despite that he is willing to work grueling hours every day and send his wife and children to work as well, he is not able to make the money that he needs to simply survive. “They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not be able to keep alive?” Sinclair pleads, demonstrating a basic right of individuals: the ability to make a living and support their families. This was the reality for Jurgis and millions of other workers, immigrants and natural-born citizens alike, who found themselves in a race to the bottom where wages were as low as the
1800 by logic i chose this song because i feel that one of the important characters, Josie, would relate to this song a lot since in the song it’s about suicide and finding yourself. in the book Josie really struggles with finding herself and she has thoughts of suicide. it states “That some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who lasted all the right jokes and Whisper that all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake one nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real... And who, when you got right down to it didn't want to remember, because it hurts even more than this.” (Picoult 8) in the song 1 800 by Logic it portrays the feeling of being left out yet not finding yourself.
“We can leave the mountain anytime we want but those with ALS are prisoners in their own body”-Alex Williams. People with ALS start losing their ability to move as the disease goes through their body. In the Book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Morrie Schwartz has ALS and he tries to give away all of his wisdom before he dies. Morrie teaches people to live life through showing love to family, not hiding or being scared of aging and accepting that Death is natural.
"On the train the next day, Joe didn't make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had..." The effect money had on Jody's life is already apparent. He bought her things because he was ownership-oriented. Throughout his life, he shows both the first flush of luxury and the futility and bypassing of what is truly important that upward mobility brings. All in all, wealth does not bring happiness, and Janie shares that sad realization with Fitzgerald's Dick Diver.
It is hard when you are a middle class family, and eventually a good life passes to be a low income family. Not just a Paycheck from Unnatural Causes describes how unemployment, and change on class & income can transform people 's health. The film presents how a middle white family started seen discrepancies among being working class and the rich. In fact, they start to understand what mean being unemployment. Basically, the film briefly explains the reasons why companies have to move to different places not matter the wellbeing of their workers. Thus, what really matter in this industrialized world is profit, and that 's what company holders are seeking at cost of anything. Clearly, companies do not care what is going to be the life of an unemployment because chair holders never have to experience it generally. In reality, the closure of companies directly constitute to a negative impact on the rate of jobs and the stress level on the people who lose their jobs which is connected to the health of the US.
Mike Rose has spent most of his life watching those defined as “blue-collar” workers with much appreciation. He would watch his mother, Rosie, and his uncle, Joe, work to their fullest potential with skills he had never really seen anywhere else except in their “blue-collar” world. Mike believes that the way his family worked, as well as others considered “blue-collar”, are intelligent in their own ways and are underappreciated compared to the way he sees them.
Joe Starks is a “quick-thinking, fast-talking, ambitious man, headed for a newly founded all black community, where he plans to make a fortune” (Rosenblatt 30). Jody offers up a new start to Janie and she leaps at the opportunity of marrying him, “committing bigamy” (Rosenblatt 30). Jody becomes the mayor of Eatonville and provides Janie with a middle-class furnished house that does not provide her “with the felicity and self-fulfillment that she needs” (Ha 33). Janie is treated no more or less than that of the mayor’s wife.
Often throughout the book she mentions that it is said that "you're paid what you're worth", saying that little pay results in you not being to good of a person. With that label they were looked down on and viewed kind of as untouchables. They had low pay, long hours, no overtime pay, and no benefits which leads to low socio-economic-status a job that no one wants to pursue. She stressed that poverty wasn’t a sustainable condition, it's a state of emergency. Citizens in the lower classes are left to fend for themselves and the ten, eight, or six dollar jobs are all that's there for them. What she would encourage them to do is to demand to be paid what they're worth because in the end they will be better off.
However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.
Therefore, both Joe and Janie are looked up to by the townspeople. To some extent, this could be considered a form of equality. Unfortunately, this is about where the equality stops. While Joe gains prominence through his own actions and words, Janie gains some prominence by doing what she is told to do. She is not permitted to voice her own opinions or join in the lighthearted gossiping which occurs outside of their store. Janie is expected to be the dutiful wife. If she makes a mistake, then she should have known better and therefore should accept her punishment quietly. Joe holds the obvious upper hand in the relationship until his death whereupon Janie inherits a large amount of money and learns to enjoy the freedom of living as her own person.
Edna is a very independent woman and she has the strength to oppose a man. She is more emancipated than Robert and she has actually entered another world.