Calling Him Back From Layoff Analysis

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Calling Him Back from Layoff” by Bob Hicok, presents a moment in the lives of two individuals who are handling their financial deterioration. Hicok positions a business owner’s point of view throughout his piece, rehiring a man, who was affected by his layoff. The poetry uses humor to develop many of his talkative toned pieces. Hicok also uses run-on sentences several times, especially when it shows the tension and nervousness of the speaker and the pauses in conversation shown with his literacy techniques such as the spacing. Between the main character and the unemployed, we can feel the tension and how the business owner feels towards the situation and simply wonders what “if”.