Nickel And Dimed Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Chapter One What would our lives hold if we live below the poverty line? What would the future hold? Would we be able to provide even the simplest and most basic human need to our family? I am quite sure life wouldn’t be easy and it would mostly require 100% effort from us. There are a myriad of question surrounding the lives of those people who are hanging by a thread, the minimum-wage workers. And these questions are just some

Miranda Castrellon AP English Language and Composition November 25, 2014 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich’s novel Nickel and Dimed is the story of an experiment she conducted to research how non- skilled workers made ends meet with their low end jobs. When beginning her experiment, she decides to bring along about $1,300, her credit card only to be used for emergencies and hew own car. She as well decides she will spend one month in three different cities, that

For best-selling author, Barbara Ehrenreich, this means going undercover as a Jerry’s Sub shop waitress in order to gain firsthand knowledge for her book Nickel and Dimed, a study of the working poor in the United States. In the chapter “Serving in Florida” of her book, Ehrenreich narrates this experience. Through an extensive array of rhetorical devices, Ehrenreich satirically argues the hard truth that life in the working poor class is far from perfect. She establishes her argument by opening the

Barbara Ehrenreich’s meritorious non-fiction, Nickel and Dimed, details the life of Ehrenreich as she goes undercover in the low-wage workforce. She works several minimum wage jobs all across the United States in the shadow of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. In an excerpt from her writing, her sympathetic view towards the American low-wage workforce and their disgusting workplace is revealed through a coalition of rhetorical strategies. Ehrenreich metaphorically casts the role of Jerry’s: a restaurant

"Serving In Florida" Rhetorical Analysis As a social critic, Barbara Ehrenreich is able to provide opinions about societal issues. Regardless of her opinion, the audiences she reaches out to, take her stand point on what she writes about. In the excerpt of a chapter in her book, "Nickel and Dimed", from her a research project she conducted, Ehrenreich vividly describes her experience as a server at a restaurant in Florida. This chapter is specifically for the upper middle and upper classes to

Ed Fleming Rhetorical Analysis Paper English 102 Thurs Hybrid In Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by In America" we read about a middle aged journalist undertaking a social experiment of the greatest magnitude. The journalist is Ehrenreich herself and the experiment was to find out how a woman, recently removed from welfare, due to policy reform, would make it on a six or seven dollar an hour wage. The experiment itself started out as just a question in the