The Story of Stevie
Stevie is the story about a young boy who overcame a lot of obstacles to become one of the best workers that his field ever had. Stevie has his boss quoted was " short, a little dumpy, with the smooth facial features and a thick tongued speech of down syndrome." His boss even used to be worried to he wouldn't work out, that all the people that go there to dine that weren't truckers would not like him very much. So for the first couple of weeks his boss watched him a lot, and made sue that he was doing everything right. Stevie soon became the center of attention everybody in the dinner loved him. He had the workers doing everything he wanted and the people soon made him their mascot. Even though he was the
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The only problems that they would ever have from him would be that he would like to clean the tables while people were still sitting at them . The best things about Stevie was that he took pride in is work. Stevie grew up with his widowed mother who was disable because she had cancer. They only thing they had to live on was Social Security. His boss started to learn that what ever he earned there was what keeping him and his mother alive, and making get sent to a group home. When Stevie missed work for the 1st time in three years everybody was very sad. He had began to have heart problems and was gonna get tested to see if he could get a new heart.
After he had the survey everybody was happy when they found out that Stevie was doing really good. When the truckers heard what Stevie and his mother would have to go through to pay there people, decided to donate money. Truckers and other people that would come there donate a total of $10,000 to Stevie and his mother so that they could help them. When Stevie turned to work after his survey he was scared that his job would be
In chapter seven of “No Promises In The Wind” Pete Harris, the manager of the carnival is talking to Josh. They are talking about how the cold harsh winters in Nebraska made it hard for Josh and Joey to get what they needed. Pete knew that Lonnie, the truck driver, was really close to them and that he helped them out multiple times. Although Lonnie was like a father to them, Josh did not want to admit it openly. Pete wanted to help Josh become something great, he promised to pay him whenever they got a new gig to do. Since the money was tight in those times, Pete could not pay well, so he had to lay Josh off.
restrictions. For instance, every worker had to live in his village (Pullman, IL) and under no circumstances was anyone allowed to leave. The people had to buy from his store, pay him rent, and attend work every day.
and everything he worked hard for. He assumed he was strictly there for a speech, but was told that
What could he offer to someone to earn a living? Finally, he came to a small
people have to worked to get where he got to. He was just a simple man who from the
“He did not know whether he would still have a job with Livingston Construction Company and he was reluctant to leave his own job unguarded.
Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he
knew that he could be whatever he wanted to be because of the money he
house not knowing what to expect. It seems as if he hated his job but he
"Was a good worker and that the leading Forman was going to put he in
also learned to live life fully. Alan didn’t know any better about his living and couldn’t realize
at fair wages for worker to avoid the poverty he was forced to endure as a young man
provide for his family, he did not come to the realization that he was severely harming them in
Much of my boyhood was devoted to getting into rock fights, crossing railway trestles, and the hunt for rats in drainage tunnels.
John introduced himself to everyone in the office and was as friendly as he could be and made many friends that he would come to know later on as he worked in the office.