Onie Khondaker itibaren Sansana, Israel

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05/03/2024

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2019-08-09 20:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Vipaş Yayınları

This is the account of an undercover journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich, who decides to join the ranks of the low-wage workers in America. She moves from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, working as a waitress, a hotel maid, a house cleaner, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart salesperson. Her experiences ultimately reveal that her strong work ethic and her frequent two-job balancing act are barely enough (and sometimes not enough)to make ends meet. Ehrenreich's account of the physically demanding and mentally exhausting low-wage work leaves no reader with the idea that it is easy for the working poor in this country to fulfill the American dream. If you're interested in social justice and injustice, this book will make you want to do something. It's hard to say what exactly. I found myself smiling when Ehrenreich tried to get Wal-Mart workers to join a union, and thinking critically about the luxury of having enough money to pay a security deposit on an apartment, but upon finishing the book, I wasn't sure what to do about it. I think that speaks a little to the tone of this book. Overall, I thought it was fantastic. It was well-written, enlightening and funny at times. However, it did leave me with a sort of "Wow, this sucks, but there's not a lot I can do about it"- powerless feeling. Ehrenreich paints a clear picture of the struggles of low-wage workers in this country, and then leaves the reader with the feeling that this struggle is one that will remain a part of a capitalistic society until "someday" workers realize that they deserve better. It's hard to know how to make that "someday" happen.

2019-08-10 00:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ses Müzik Aletleri

SUCH A POWERFUL ENDING. This would make an amazing movie, if done right. This book was mildly confusing for the first 200 pages (or maybe just for me -- I was confused by all the old foreign guys doing different things), but things get cleared up really quickly toward the later part of the book, and- just- how things all came together, making the conclusion succinct and bittersweet, and, like I said, just really powerful. And the POEM AT THE END. I always admire a good ending, and Nicole Krauss did a stunning job with this. Just one good excerpt: The grass was slippery with mud. In the distance I could see a rowboat tied to the dock. I looked out across the water. Must have been a good swimmer, took after his father, I thought with pride. My own father, who had great respect for nature, had dropped each of us into the river soon after we were born, before our ties to the amphibians, so he claimed, were cut completely. My sister Hanna blamed her lisp on the trauma of this memory. I'd like to think that I would have done it differently. I would have held my son in my hands. I would have told him, Once upon a time you were a fish. A fish? he'd have asked. That's what I'm telling you, a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. How long? Long. Anyway, being a fish, you used to know how to swim. I did? Sure. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought: Perhaps this is what it means to be a father -- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.

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