Barbara Ehrenreich as Barbara Alexander has undergone her coaching, went to bootcamps, undergone a physical transformation, and has been to networking events. She still has not acquired a job and even with her background cannot seem to secure an interview. She has begun to provocatively approach companies that are not looking for her type of work field. Alexander has used her training to try to get further ahead in the fight to get a good paying white-collar job, but the training looks like it was a waste. At the beginning of her journey she set aside one-thousand dollars for items that she might have need in the process. The excessive coaches, bootcamps, and trips to different networking events has eaten up her budget of one-thousand dollars and she is now over by three-thousand dollars. Alexander is feeling defeated, but she is not letting that stop her. It has been four months and she expected to have landed a job already. Alexander refers to herself as desperate to succeed, but determined to finish what she set out to do.
Tone: determined, frustrated
Style: exact
Rhetorical Strategies: parallel structure "And the first part of the plan is, onece again, as emphasized by Ron, networking- sustained and furious, skilled and highly targeted, relentless and dogged." pg. 95
allusion "The ten principles, he explains, are the Ten Commandments..." pg. 125
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I find it interesting how in our first chunk, Barbara Ehrenreich believed that Barbara Alexander was going to have a really easy time finding a job that will raise her status, but now, she is begininng to see that finding a job is very difficult. After undergoing different places to find a job, Ehrenreicch sees that in an economic world, there are economic winners and losers who each day fight their way through to find a good job, hoping to find the American dream along the way. Ehrenreich learns that finding a job isn't as easy as one can think.
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