Drowning In Dishes But Finding A Home Summary

When I was younger, me and my grandmother had to paint a sign, I didn’t have a very strong work ethic, and I had to be told to work on it. Looking back now, I know I could have done a better job. In the article, the author learns and gains motivation because he knows he has to stop complaining and do a good job at Pizza Hut. In the article “Drowning in Dishes, but Finding a Home” by Danial Adkison, the author uses narrative techniques such as sensory details, engaging openings, and varied sentence structure to create the claim that a job can be a great job with the right boss. The first technique that was used to build their evidence by the author was engaging opening. For example, author, Danial Adkison wrote an article called, “Drowning in

Write on a chalkboard. Some wear sports uniforms. Some wear a suit and tie. For me, that person wore a tie with a Pizza Hut logo on it.”(Adkison) This helps to prove the point that his boss had changed his life, which helps to prove that a good boss can improve the quality of your job. His boss also had impacted his life outside of just his job. Another technique that the authors used to build their evidence was sensory detail. In the article, he complains about how much his job sucks and how it was hard on him. To him, the work just kept piling up and he couldn’t keep

He would go to clear tables out front and come back to more work, which just helped to overwork and stress him out. He had to do this for weeks until his boss promoted him to a table position after his work ethic had improved and he no longer complained. Another narrative technique that was used in the text was varied sentence structure. The author said that he had a pretty hard home life and never wanted to be there. Even though the job sucked in the beginning when his work ethic wasn’t strong and all he did was complain about the job, it really was a place where the author enjoyed working there in the end. The time where this technique was used was when the author said,“Pizza Hut became not only my escape from home but also, in many ways, an alternate home. In my home, I felt unstable and out of control. At work, the path seems clear: Work hard and do things right, and you will succeed. This model had not seemed possible before.” When he was at work he didn’t feel unsafe or unstable like he did when he was at home, he felt like he finally was “empowered”