Alex Webster
Nickeled and Dimed Circle # 1: Summarizer
Barbara decides to find out what it is like to live on minimum wage in order to write about it. She tries to live as close to her rules, as to get the full sense of living on minimum wage as possible. She ends up breaking all of her rules a few times. She looks for housing in Key West, but finds it to be too expensive. She settles on a cabin 30 miles out of town. She then searches the help wanted of the paper. She applies for many jobs but can’t find one that will pay enough. She is steered away from housekeeping to waitressing because she is white. She becomes a waitress and after two weeks realizes that she can’t live on only one job. She then gets a second waiting job.
She writes in the first person for this book. She introduces her “characters” and tells their back stories. At first her tone is of that she might be discovered because she is more educated. But she soon realizes to everyone else she is just another person. The language of this section was easy to follow and not difficult at all.
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