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Summary Of Orientation By Daniel Orozco

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While reading the short story “Orientation”, by Daniel Orozco, there were parts in the story that were bizarre. The story dives in already by having the protagonist in the office learning. The person teaching the protagonist talks more about the people around him then about the actual job. The protagonist learns about a person named John LaFountaine. Supposedly he accidently goes in the women’s bathroom. The people at the job know this, but don’t do anything to stop him because they think he is harmless. In the short story it says that “John LaFountaine, who sits over there, uses the women’s room occasionally. He says it is accidental. We know better, but we let it pass” (Orozco 33). Even if the guy is harmless doesn’t mean they should keep letting him use the women’s room. …show more content…

Other than John going into the women’s rooms is not the only bizarre thing to happen. Amanda Pierce, who works at the office and she comes to work with bruises all over her body. Even when people at the office know about this, they don’t want anyone to ask questions about it. In the text it says that “She comes to work exhausted and freshly wounded each morning, wincing from the abrasions on her breasts, or the bruised on her abdomen, or the second-degree burns on the backs of her thighs. But we’re not supposed to know any of this. Do not let on. If you let on, you may be let go” (Orozco 34). People that know about Amanda and her problem won’t even talk to her about it because they are not supposed to know and they can be fired. There are people working in this office that have some serious problems that no one is supposed to know

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