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1.) Ehrenreich is working as an undercover waitress to expose the truth and statistics of minimum wage workers. 2.) I think that Ehrenreich does have a tendency to exaggerate about the work place. Everything she has to say about the restaurant seems to be negative. From the appearance of it, to the rules, to her managers. Her description of the restaurant environment doesn’t match my experience. Then again I’ve never worked at a restaurant to know what happens behind the scenes. 3.) Ehrenreich listens to the stories of her fellow coworkers. I feel she only appreciates them in the sense that she’s getting their testimonies and statistics for her writing benefit. She can be accused of talking about them in a condescending way when she quotes them. When she quotes them it shows how uneducated the workers are and how they talk in slang. Ehrenreich never claimed to be better or above any of them, she just states the facts and stories. 4.) According to Ehrenreich she blames the management for the situation of those who work at low-paying jobs in restaurants. The management through her eyes is considered to be the villains, and the workers are the heroes. The workplace makes the workers out to be the villains. Instead of the management sympathizing with the workers, they’re just exploiting them. 5.) The intended effect is to draw a picture of the amount of food that there is surrounding the workers. She says that every bit must be paid for whether it’s by money or human discomfort. I think she wants to disgust the reader. I find her to be humorous and anything by serious in this paragraph, because of the language she uses. For example:”barf”, “fat person’s hell”, “fart”. 6.) Ehrenreich is trying to make the readers feel disgusted. No one wants to read about “pizza barf” and “citrus fart”. She makes you want to side with the workers more and not go into one of these restaurants. She bashes all restaurants. In that sense she is very successful. 7.) I don’t find her crude expressions to be appropriate. Instead of being interested in the reading I began to feel disgusted. I personally

8.) The effect if Ehrenreich’s commentary is to show that these people lead miserable lives. They go to a job that they hate everyday, and then they take pleasure in another miserable pleasure, smoking cigarettes. 9.) Ehrenreich’s audience is to everyone. She wants to expose the truth and statistics of minimum wage workers and what they experience on a day to day schedule. While her audience is for everyone, she blames the management for making the workplace miserable. 10.) I commend Ehrenreich for going undercover in a job that’s not always easy to do, or as pleasurable. There were times where I questioned her writing styles, for example when she described the bodily organs and functions. Then I realized while I thought it might have sounded disgusting, it got the point across and painted a picture for the readers. I don’t think this is completely accurate though because she was only a waitress for a short period of time. I think if she did it more long time she could have gotten a better picture....