Analysis Of Orientation Of The Oppressed, By Daniel Orozco

Orientation of the Oppressed

Any story can hold many clues and insights on information of the period to which it 's written. To find the information you must look beyond the text and the words we read closely. There are those in a society that investigate every piece of literature this way. Those select few named Marxists’ search for why our lower classes are so oppressed as compared to upper and middle class, why lower classes are being pulled to these non-fundamental developing jobs and many similar questions. Daniel Orozco’s “Orientation” compiles symbolic value to the meaning of Marxism and the information that can derive from within the story. In this short story, the lower working class characters are involved in a business where every aspect is outside of the

Some of these unworldly norms are the possibilities as to why they can potentially be let go. For instance, while the new employee goes through orientation his coworker states, “There are no personal phone calls allowed. We do, however, allow for emergencies. If you must make an emergency phone call, ask your supervisor first” (33). The coworker goes on to state, “If you make an emergency phone call without asking, you may be let go” (33). Now under any circumstance in any job today there would be no reason an employee would have to go through such a process to take an urgent phone call. Further into this orientation the coworker bluntly says, “Feel free to ask questions. Ask too many questions and you may be let go” (33). These workers, will not granted the right to ask limitless questions even if it revolved around their professional work. This restraint is just unbearable in my mind because I would feel trapped between doing the assignment incorrectly or being fired for asking what’s the correct way to do it. Lastly, the new employee