Ka- Ching! Essay Analysis by Martin Geluz The thesis of this essay is that no matter how educated you are there are lessons in life that cannot be learned through books and classes. The purpose of this essay is to inform and entertain the reader about the realities of life and that everyone has to deal with problems that they were not necessarily taught to deal with. The writer is mostly speaking to teenagers, not only because the story is about her as a one but also because it is extremely relatable as we have all been through or will go through eventually. Also the problem most of us middle-class people face is how we are going to pay for our tuition, and we eventually will end up working to pay off our debt. The tone she uses is comedic …show more content…
The introduction sets the tone well for what the essay is going to consist of which is her telling us about her experience with her very first job complimented with a few anectodes making it less or more humorous. The ending has a “twist” or “surprise” that most of us would not have expected. She employs metaphor when she quotes her co-worker who says “(“Easy as pie,” I was told.)” Because of this Atwood was expecting an easy task which she was unpleasantly surprised with when she realized it was far from …show more content…
Atwood uses Ethos effectively by providing a decent amount of detail of the story that makes us believe that her stories not fictionial but indeed real life experiences, her anecdotes also seem very geniune. For example when she says “Occassionaly, he would bring some man in a suit to view me. “She’s got an M.A.” he would say, in a proud but pitying voice [...]” you can sense that it was a pretty awkward moment for her and makes us empathize for her, because we’ve all had a similar moment in our life. Logos is employed well by the use of many anecdotes and comments that we can support and agree upon. Pathos is all over this essay, from beginning to end, her ignorance similar to what we experience when one first gets a job is extremely relatable and something we can all expathize for her. Like when her ex-boyfriend came in and made her feel uncomfortable, those are two things we can relate to. It’s quite ironic that an “educated” univesity student does not know simple things such as what a waitress, usually viewed by society as a not very educated person, knows. “I didn’t know what he meant by “‘white