https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0 Sophie Grundmann en-us 2020-11-05 19:52:52 UTC 2020-11-06 18:48:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 20527351 https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/895690787 "In real life I am moderately brave, but plenty of brave people shed their courage in POW camps, and maybe something similar goes on in the infinitely more congenial milieu of the low-wage American workplace" (767).]]> 2020-11-05 19:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/895690787 20527351 https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898615870 "The break room summarizes the whole situation: there is none, because there are no breaks at Jerry's. For six to eight hours in a row, you never sit except to pee" (759). The workers at Jerry's are exhausted by working constantly, feeling like there is no temporary escape, just as there is no escape for POW.]]> 2020-11-06 18:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898615870 20527351 https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898692947 "I have gone from craft work straight into the factory, from the air-conditioned morgue of the Hearthside directly into the flames" (760). The comparison of flames indicates that the author believed their work to be a form of hell, even torturous. The tolerance of this torturous environment could be considered the bravery they talk about in the thesis.]]> 2020-11-06 18:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898692947 20527351 https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898707520 "I feel powerfully vindicated -- a survivor-- but it would take a long time, probably months, before I could hope to be accepted into this sorority" (760). The author compares their experience with working at Jerry's to being a survivor-- something very few POW experience. Their boldness in comparing POW to a minimum wage job is astonishing.]]> 2020-11-06 18:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898707520 20527351 https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898737994 "The only thing to do is to treat each shift as a one-time-only emergency: you've got fifty starving people out there, lying scattered on the battlefield, so get out there and feed them" (761). The author uses the metaphor of a battlefield to set the scene at Jerry's; utter chaos that eats at the mind and keeps every worker busy. The comparison of war and POW continuously throughout the story indicates that the author truly believes working at Jerry's is the most dangerously harmful thing for one's mind and body.]]> 2020-11-06 18:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20527351/at97uom82a0i03k0/wish/898737994