Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio

For the Rhetoric in Practice project, I added a ninth chapter to the novel Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen. I started the chapter imitating the paragraph that talks about the working conditions at the slaughterhouse on page 179 of the novel, which consisted of intentional fragments. After, I did a form disruption which switched the topic from the working conditions and the inhumane rules imposed on the coal miners, to the recruitment of kids at the coal mine due to the need of money to survive, creating a focus on the scarcity of opportunities for kids to leave the poverty they grew up in, just like it was done with the form disruption in the Andy passage on page 6 of Yonnondio. After, I broke from the form disruption to introduce a mine accident

It is appropriate to add a ninth chapter to this novel because Olsen does mention that the novel “was not ended” (Olsen 193) in chapter 8. Olsen also mentions that the novel was set aside for “forty years” (Olsen 193), however, I do mention that this ninth chapter takes place forty-two years later, which also makes it appropriate to be the continuation of this novel. Also, I believe that it is appropriate place chapter 9 at the end because it brings closure to the Andy Kvaternik passage of chapter 1. When the narrator says to Andy, “death shall be your wife...when a cross-piece falls and barely misses your head” (Olsen 7), shows that death was going to haunt Andy as long as he worked at the coal mine. Therefore, when I wrote in chapter 9 that the people were “prioritizing the college announcement” given by the super’s nephew over Andy who was bleeding to death after losing a leg, leaving him “to his fate”, gives a conclusion to the Andy passage in chapter one since the so daunting death has finally reached Andy. Chapter 9 also continues the false illusions for a better future that was depicted in chapter 8. Chapter eight ends with Anna being hopeful that the wind will push away the smell of the slaughterhouse, which is a false illusion the same way a better future for the poor working class. However, the smell will not go away because the

When I say, “Certainly it is renaissance enough―this bloodiness, this man with the leg missing, this man with severe injuries all over his body”, I am accusing my audience of looking at Andy’s injured body as an ideal body like the David idealistic sculpture. Such accusation of seeing the injuries on Andy’s body as beautiful due to his job also means that the middle class prefers to look at the poor working class people suffer instead of taking action to help them. The accusations of insensibility with the sarcasm is meant to also provoke sympathy among the audience in order to inform them that the people are suffering and that it is insensible to stay with arms crossed while people suffer in such ways due to the working conditions imposed on