Analysis Of Nickel And Dimed: Getting By In America

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Memo December 16, 2013 To: Moore From: Ezinne Nwachukwu Subject: Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America. Barbara Enrenreich wrote the novel Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America. This book is an autobiography of the author working various jobs such as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate. All those jobs she worked paid a minimum wage from $5.25 to $8.50 an hour. She mentioned the difficulties of getting a place to stay, getting food and finding transportation to get from place to place with money she made working two jobs a day with minimum wage. I will be using MLA format, and also I’ll be writing a research paper that analyzes the book and the ideas proposed inside of it.…show more content…
There are two clear sides to this issue because the author uses specific examples to support her side of the argument. The author is completely bias thought the novel; she did not address any idea to value the other side of the issue. The central of this argument, was that Americans cannot support themselves on a minimum wage budget. In addition they cannot buy their own place to stay without having help from another minimum wage worker to pay the rent. The main rhetorical strategies the author uses to support her argument were specific examples, long examples, and statistic/ logical argument. The pages and passages I will discuss in my final research will be pages 16, 119, 199, 27, 160 and 16. These pages target mostly statistics of housing cost, transportation, and job pay including

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