The smile that spread across her face when Minnie offered to help her hadn’t faded or disappeared, it was as strong as ever. Uttering out a content sigh, she lowered her fork to the table, head tilting off to the side. “I have been to the Library, I wasn’t too sure how to go about looking up the information.” She mused, head bobbing up and down, “I’m sure if I was able to stick around the place longer I would have stumbled across some type of information on them.” She spoke, her voice low. In a swift motion she tilted her head to the other side. “I would love to work as a waitress a few nights a week.” She stated with a nod. This was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up.
She shook her head, a small giggle escaped her lips. “I absolutely love that idea Minnie, it will give me a chance to ask those I don’t know about the floating lanterns. It will also allow me to make some new friends.” She spoke, her voice full of joy. Reaching her hand out she grabbed hold of a napkin, lifting it to her face where she would wipe off the excess cake that might have been at the corners of her lips. Lowering the napkin back to the table she slide her hand across the stable, tapping at it lightly. “You are such a big help already, you allow me to work here.” She stated.
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Not because she didn’t want too but because she really didn’t know how long she had been in Waltown. She knew how long she was away from Her mother, Gothel. She just didn’t know how long she had been in Waltown. “Well,” She spoke with a hint of confusion, “I’m not really sure, I know it’s been awhile.” She added, head bobbing up and down once again. Lifting her right hand, she brought it to scratch at the back of her head, “I’ve been in Waltown long enough to make friends and even get a
Ehrenreich eventually found work as a waitress, where she learned firsthand the struggles of working in a restaurant for minimum wage. The pace that the work demanded oscillated from lethargic to manic,
Setting the scene with including where he grew up, Mike Rose introduces where his mother works in Los Angeles in the 1950s (Rose, 2017 p.272), thus, creating an image in the reader’s head to picture how the economy was at that time. Sometimes people had to work in areas they did not want to work in order to provide for their families. Diving into the everyday life of his mother, Rose emphasized the skills she needed to be successful as a waitress. Waitressing “acquires knowledge and intuition about the ways and rhythms of the restaurant business” (Rose, 2017, p.274). His mother had to devise memory strategies in order to wait on multiple tables with multiple people.
Rose helps the audience gather a mental image of what he experienced occasionally on a day to day basis; it was the 1950s in a Los Angeles family restaurant. Mrs. Mergalio would do more than just waitress, she could handle working the register and the counter with little to no help (Rose, 2017, p. 272). Sitting behind a desk all day, white-collar employees have little to no face time with the outside world or their colleagues. As a waitress,
Rose recounts of the days he spent watching his mother, a waitress go through her work effortlessly (Rose 209). She came up with a sequence to attend to the tables such that she
From the very beginning, Rose visually immersed me into his essay with the narration of his mother working and his experiences, lasting for several passages. He describes, “Weaving in and out around the room, waitresses warned behind you in impassive but urgent voices. Standing at the service window facing the kitchen, they called out abbreviated orders. Fry four on two, my mother would say as she clipped a check onto the metal wheel” (243-244). Subsequently he continues to express his viewpoint by stating the skills his mother obtained “A waitress acquires knowledge and intuition about the ways and the rhythms of the restaurant business” (244). He goes on to describe his uncle’s factory while he was taking a tour of the about his
Rose admired his mother’s work ethic. Rosie would weave around tables, call out abbreviated orders, scoop out the room for refills and deal with the physical and emotional strain of her job. “…what I observed in my
Many parents/caregivers today may ask themselves if their little girls may be growing up too fast? Are they becoming little women too soon? Stephanie Hanes wrote an interesting and valid article “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect, “ which argue that many young ladies today in age may be impacted by Disney Princess regarding their life expectations. The author talks about the issues of young girls feeling the necessity to mature sooner rather than at a timely matter.
The story about Timmy and Linda is so important because it represents the way storytelling and memory can alleviate the pain in any traumatic situation. "Lying in bed at night, I made up elaborate stories to bring Linda alive in my sleep."(O'Brien pg. 230). Timmy was the younger version of the new Tim, even when Linda first died he used stories to keep her alive. This was the first incident in his life that we know of where O'Brien references Storytelling to keep the dead alive. This can help us to understand why Tim O’Brien wrote this book, telling us all of his stories from war. Each of the stories he tells is a way to relieve his pain from war. In the worksheet over “Death”, I was asked what is meant by stories save people. What is meant
Mike begins by stretching out his mother’s life as a hard working waitress. He points out all of the things he watched her do like “[take] customers’ orders…, [walk]… through the room with plates stretching up her left arm…, [removing] a
“I believe that today is the day you should know how I chose my career” and suddenly everyone's eyes and ears opened up. Mrs. Chavez had abandoned her normal playful tone and opted for a more serious one. I was wearing my red and white summer uniform. It was already about 20 degrees outside and as I gently rubbed my hands against each other, my palms started to sweat. I didn't know what to expect from the story as she began telling it. However, each word she said pulled me in closer and closer.
Many young adult books contain common day problems. Common day problems that readers may have to deal with on a daily basis, or once in their lifetime. Problems that are emotional, physical, and mental, happen to people world wide. Problems are not just limited to children, teenagers, young adults, adults, or elderly people, they come and go from everyone 's life. One story that won a Newbery Award in 2004 written by Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux:Being the story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread helps readers to understand some problems faced in life. This story contains many important and different themes that readers pick up on. Within the book the main themes that are dealt with or shown are betrayal, forgiveness and compassion, and light and dark.
After finding a temporary residence in an efficiency apartment within a forty-five minute drive from the prospective employment options in Key West, Florida, Ehrenreich attempts to find a low-paying job that could defray her living expenses. She applies for multiple jobs and waits a couple of days until she is hired as a waitress at a restaurant attached to a hotel that she calls “Hearthside.” During the first few weeks as a waitress, Ehrenreich is concerned with being an effective worker and providing a convivial atmosphere for the customers. She soon discovers that the onerous demands of waitressing can only be alleviated by desensitising herself to the quality of her work. Upon doing so,
Rose begins his essay by writing about how he spent his free time as a child in the restaurant his mother was a waitress for. As a child, Rose notes that he observed his mother’s work and realized that her work had both mental and physical aspects to it. He then went on to analyze the many skills that went into her job: learning abbreviations for food, memorizing orders, reading people’s emotions, knowing how long dishes take to cook and knowing how to maneuver her way around the restaurant. Rose then adds that most people in his family do not have a high level of schooling.
Rose starts off with a special anecdote about his mother’s job as a waitress and then provides another anecdote of his uncle’s automotive job. By doing this, it appeals to the audience with a heartfelt and personal situation which makes it more relatable for the readers. Rose says “She walked full tilt through the room with plates stretching up her left arm and two cups of coffee somehow cradled in her right hand” (1034). This gives the notion that her job was not only hard physically but she had to mentally arrange the objects in her arms before picking them up to get all of it done at once. Rosie, his mother, was always very observant and “her tip depended on how well she adapted to those needs” which meant that her attitude at work was highly important. Rosie herself said, “there isn't a day that goes by in the restaurant that you don’t learn something.” Rose then goes on to tell what his uncle Joe had learned from being a factory worker
After we were assigned a table, we searched through the menu for the perfect meal. The interior of the place was homey and warm. The atmosphere excited and joyful. As we waited for our meals we talked about everything that had been going on. I told them about the weird