Rustam Kaunas
Mr. Lewis
Engl. 1301-010
3 November 2015
Difference Authors use contrast to describe the difference between two or more objects. In The Norton Mix, there are three essays that show good examples of what contrast is and what it does. Suzanne Britt writes “Neat People vs. Sloppy People,”; Bruce Catton writes, “Grant and Lee: A study in Contrasts,” and Barbara Ehrenreich tells us about, “Cultural Baggage.” In these essay, the author shows the readers clear distinctions between people and things; authors do this because the author wants the audience to use their imaginations, critical thinking, and observations to see difference between two situations. Authors use contrast to show their believe of one thing but they compare it
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Sloppy People,” Suzanne Britt discusses the advantage and the disadvantage of either being sloppy or neat people. Britt, being a sloppy person, defends the sloppy people by showing the truth between neat and lazy people. In the beginning of her essay, Britt express, “The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people” (Britt pg. 314). Britt explains that sloppy people are sloppy but there is a reason why, they treasure everything that they own unlike the neat people. Sloppy are the people who organize their whole place, such as putting his or her’s book in alphabetic order; they also would not make their own bed, just because they are lazy. Britt, being a sloppy person, also criticizes the neat people in “Neat People vs. Sloppy People.” In the middle of her essay, Britt says that, “Neat people are bums and clods at heart. They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them”(Britt 315). Britt expresses through her words that neat do not care about how they got there, they just want the quality. Readers can see that she does not like neat people because perhaps she was or knew someone that had the same characteristics. In the end of the essay, she said, “Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.” After reading that sentence, the readers can be informed that you would or should not …show more content…
Ehrenreich expresses the audience her problem which is that she can not seem to feel good about her ethnic heritage. Everyone around her had ancestors that were more cultured, and appeared to be a part of society. Ehrenreich issue was that her ancestors were the ones who took the land, enslaved people, and were not any kind of cultured. Ehrenreich seems kind of humiliated of her culture in the beginning of her essay, but more towards the end of her, she notices that she no longer needed to follow the traditions that were made by her ancestors. Also she longer need to follow what her grandparents made her do. “We are the kind of people, I realized-whatever our distant ancestors’ religions-who do not believe, who do not carry on traditions, who do not do things just because someone has done them before” (Ehrenreich pg 478). Ehrenreich demonstrates that although her family values are not the same as what she wants, she no longer needed to follow her ancestor’s
The biggest appeal that Ehrenreich makes is after she ends up walking out of the housekeeping job/waitress job because she cannot handle it anymore." I have failed I don't cry, but I am in a position to realize, for the first time in many years, that the tear ducts are still there and still capable of doing their job." (Ehrenreich, 48) This is the biggest appeal because Ehrenreich is quitting on the whole project. She is basically telling the readers that it is impossible for her, a "well-off", woman to live the life of a low wage worker.
To begin with, immigrants who have settled in a country with new cultures and customs are often scared to lose their cultural values, not only for themselves but also for their family. They tend to hold on their artistic souls and customs when adapting to a new country. Mrs. Engkent hates everything about Canada, she feared losing her Chinese culture if she conformed to the “fan gwei” way (different countries culture). “If you are here long enough, they will turn your head until you don’t know who you are— Chinese” (Engkent, pg.144) Mrs. Engkent did everything in the Chinese way, she
Through this, the reader understands that the author has an advanced amount of knowledge on the subject she will be covering throughout the novel. Feeling as if there will be no need to question her findings or conclusions (due to her vast educational background and the research she put in), the audience is much more susceptible and therefore predisposed to Ehrenreich’s arguments, making it easier for her to make her case.
In "A&P" and "Railway Club Blues", the authors used contrast to illustrate the difference between the youth of the older generation and younger generation. In the short story "A&P", Lengel the manager shows that he is anxious, disappointed not content when he repeated “this isn’t the beach” twice while giving a “Sunday school superintendent stare” to the girls that wearing bathings suits in a grocery store because the tennagers in his days were not as wild as the girls. Also, Lengel’s disappointment was because of the girl’s lax behaviour and still think what they are doing is not wrong. On the other hand, in " "Railway Club Blues", the protagonist compared his youth as “simple punks [with] drapes and duck-ass hair” as to the teenagers with “shaven heads and crests of orange hair” on the train. The protagonist also mentions that they were “the heroes for another year” as to teens on the train that think they are now the current heroes. The authors of both “A&P” and “Railway Club Blues” used contrast by comparing the behaviours and
My reactions and thoughts about the novel were surprising to read improper word language, the imagery details of her job positions, and the reactions were interesting. My interest was grabbed from the beginning of the book; as Ehrenreich’s reaction on ethnicity was unexpected. It didn’t seem to make a change when Ehrenreich worked at all her jobs; she wasn’t discriminated of her ethnicity. However, some jobs might be been looking for a certain person for the job criteria. It was mostly Ehrenreich’s work knowledge and prior experience. Barbara had more of an advantage to getting more jobs because of her ethnicity, age, and qualifications. While many people of diverse ethnicity struggle to find jobs with decent pay to survive. Ehrenreich had good motives to criticize about her coworkers and job outcomes if unfair. I would do the same, if in the same position as Ehrenreich. If employees get paid minimum wage it’s hard dealing with infinite issues of shortages, bad attitudes, bad work conditions, and poor management. Going from job to job is sometimes necessary whether for experiment or not fo...
Comparison and contrast order, items of information are arranged to show the similarities and differences between the items.
There are several inconsistencies about the situations that Ehrenreich placed herself in and the real li...
In The Norton Mix, Suzanne Britt’s “Neat People vs. Sloppy People,” Bruce Catton’s “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,” and Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Cultural Baggage,” all compare and contrast people or things in the stories. It is important for the author to clearly distinguish what he or she is saying, because it allows the reader to understand the story better. Comparing and contrasting different things is also a way to organize the author’s thoughts. It is important for the reader to be able to see the difference between things or people so one can have a more suitable understanding, better insight, and a firm viewpoint of the subject.
In Suzanne Britt’s “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” she ridicules neat people and defends the ways of sloppy people. Britt states that neat people are in fact meaner and lazier as opposed to sloppy people. Although their may be some cases where neat people are meaner and lazier than sloppy people, in my experience neat people are actually not mean nor lazy at all. For instance my older sister Bertha is a neat person and by far the kindest person I know on the other hand my younger sister Christine is a sloppy person and quite lazy at that. Britt’s view on neat people and sloppy people through out her essay is incorrect
In the essay “Cultural Baggage” by Barbara Ehrenreich in The Norton Mix, Ehrenreich claims that she possesses no type of heritage. She goes on to explain that in her life, she never learned any specific cultural values, and that her family has always lived with borrowed traditions. She closes by stating that she is proud of her lack of heritage and believes that the world would be better off without culture. Having no cultural background is a well-developed and agreeable idea because of the number of people who come from mixed and confusing backgrounds, the complexity of a mixed family tree, and the changing times and their effect on traditions.
Characters are able to gain more for themselves by appealing to what is known. In the literary guide, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster, he writes, “Sameness doesn 't present us with metaphorical possibilities, whereas difference-from
Both LaPierre and Kristof compare and contrast to advance their arguments. To support his claim that children should be more protected, LaPierre explains the similarities and differences between the children and the rest of the nation. He explains that people care about their money so they protect the banks with armed guards; they care for president so they protect him with armed Secret Service agents (LaPierre 6-7). He then compares how people care for their children, but they are not protected like the other things that they care about. Using this compare and contrast helps the audience to understand the problem of children not being protected. It is showing the issue that people are not fully protecting all things they ca...
The comparison and contrast between these two stories is evident. They both developed as characters in similar settings but have different situations and outcomes. They differed in their goals and how they would achieve their goals and their mental health status sets them apart. These stories have contrast and similarities, over all the differences outweigh the comparisons.
A clean home is something that should come easy for anyone. Most people would consider anyone with a dirty and cluttered home to be lazy or filthy, but many are unaware of the psychological disorder Hoarding, which affects about 5% of the population, both men and women (Neziroglu, n.d.). Hoarding is the act of one having difficulties separating from their belongings. Although many confuse hoarding with collecting, there is a significant difference from the two. Those who collect, gather a specific product as a hobby or a profession, but those with a Hoarding disorder keep items without a notable worth and it accumulates in areas that were previously used for living. It is believed that hoarding is caused by a deficiency with a person’s information processing or led by a cognitive disorder, or a disturbing emotional shock (“The Hoarding Project”, 2016
In conclusion to this essay it apparent that these two theories clashed. Fiske arguing for the people rejecting that culture can be critiqued allowing the people to feel responsible for their actions. As for McDonald leaving the audience feeling gloomy depressed with the fact that they like what they. McDonald makes it clear that if people are not choosing high culture they are halfwits. However Fiske argument is impartial leaving audience with the notion that they are determining culture since they are creating the popular culture chain even though they are at the