Multi Genre Project

Short Story

Topic: Unemployment

One day a man named John Reed, who was an African American (Appositive), was an experienced worker who worked at Steel Corp., and always got the Job done every time he got to work. That morning when he got to work, a big argument was heard through the halls of his job. He ran toward his boss’s office and opened the door. When he opened the door, he saw people arguing and throwing things at their boss.

“What is going on here?” John asked.

A man who stood beside him looked towards him with an angry look, “The boss sold the company and now they are talking about getting rid of us.”

John walked through the crowd of people who were all angry about this. John looked at his boss with a disappointed look. The boss saw him and jumped down from the table he was standing on.

“Oh John, am I glad to see you, how are you doing?” the boss said with a nervous tremor.

John gave the boss an angry stare. “Don’t try to change the subject. Why did you sell this company? Why did you let them fire all of us?”

“O’ John (Apostrophe), now this is just business, this-(Aposiopesis).” The boss said as he was interrupted by John.

“Well I hope you are happy,” John said as he walked off.

As three months passed, John was unemployed. He had no money to buy him nothing. All he got was unemployment checks that he barely could cash. In the year of 2010, in November, unemployment has reached a rate of 9.8%. People said that mostly minorities are the cause of the unemployment. John was devastated, and couldn’t bear this burden of being unemployed. John tried searching for jobs all around his city and his state. The only thing he didn’t have for some of the jobs was his college degree; he never finished college because of money troubles. John had just given up on his life and just lived on the streets.

“Well although I’m unemployed and out on the streets, I have faith that a breakthrough will come (Antagoge),” John said while he was looking up at the bright sky (Assonance).

A year had passed and John still was unemployed, and had no one to call to help him. As John was walking, he spotted a flyer that said “Help wanted. Need an experienced worker.”

“I can’t believe it- maybe this is my breakthrough (Anacoluthon),” John said.

That day John went through the doors of the place that the flyer came from. He walked towards the desk where an assistant was sitting. The assistant looked up at him with a disgusted gaze.

“I am here for the job opening,” John said.

“Ok… the boss will be with you shortly,” said the assistant.

A few hours had passed and the boss came to see who was next for the job. He looked and saw a man with a shaggy beard and a nappy afro.

“Is this the last one?” the boss asked.

“Yes sir.” The assistant replied.

The boss walked up to the man and introduced himself. “Hello, my name is tom Bradley.

John stood up and shook his hand. “Nice to meet you; my name is John Reed.”

John and Tom went to the office. After 3 hours, Tom told John that he will be in touch with John. John looked up and nodded. After 2 months had passed John was sitting on the sidewalk until a yellow cab pulled up. A man with a black trench coat ran up to him.

“Are you John Reed?” the man asked.

“Yes I am,” John answered. “You must be Tom Bradley from that job.

“Yes, I’m glad you still remembered, I just came to say you got the job John,” Tom said.

John’s eyes widened and he jumped around with joy.

“Thank you, Thank you,” John said happily.

“You are welcome, work starts tomorrow,” Tom said.

John was so happy that he couldn’t do nothing but cry. Tom shook John’s hand and left. John walked away in happiness.

“No more unemployment,” John said walking into the sunset.

Rethorical Devices

• Parallelism

Is a recurrent syntactical similarity; It expresses similarity to show that the ideas in the sentence are equal in importance.

Ex.

She likes to cook, jog, and read.

• Parataxis

A successive independent clause with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions.

Ex.

The Starfish went into the dry-dock, it got a barnacle, it went back to work.

• Parenthesis

A form of hyperbaton, and consist of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as a aside in the middle of another sentence.

Ex.

My umbrella (which is somewhat broken) can still shield the two of us from the rain.

• Personification

It metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate objects as having human attributes—attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on. Ideas and abstractions can also be personified.

Ex.

The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea.

• Pleonasm

Uses more words than required to express an idea; it is mostly being redundant. Normally a vice, it is done on purpose on rare occasions for emphasis.

Ex.

That statement is wtong, incorrect, and not true at all in anyway, shape, or form.

U.K v.s. U.S.

The U.S. and Rome are alike in many ways. One reason why the U.S. is like Rome is our government setup; we have a senate like Rome; the word Senate came from Rome. Another reason why the U.S. is like Rome is our security. Just like Rome's soldiers being stretched throughout Hadrian's Wall, our army is strong and is spread out, or scattered, over Iraq and other areas. Also Rome had a huge mass of land it controlled. Like Rome we control a huge area of land. We also live in opulence like Rome did centuries ago. Like Rome, we have all the characteristics and lifestyle that makes us compare to them.

        In contrast to Rome, however, the U.S. will never fall like Rome did. Our technology is constantly growing and evolving throughout the years. Our industries also grow; we have jobs and transportation, and also we make products that continue to be important in our lives.  We are now developing high-tech weapons to protect ourselves from enemies and other dangers. Our country also is becoming more and more dominant each passing year.

          In comparison to Rome, for instance, if the U.S. ever does fall, as a result, we will regress back to a traditional economy like Rome did when it fell. We will not have any name brand clothes we wear like Polo, Nike, or Aeropostale. Our lifestyles will change from having nice products to making our products from wood or grass. We won't be living in big, extravagant houses anymore; we will be living in mud huts like the Anglo-Saxons. Our civilization will also go back to a point of hard labor and hunting and fighting for our survival.

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