Precis:1st Chunk "Fast Food Nations"

Precis:
Eric Schlosser's 2005 book, Fast Food Nation explains the birth and growth of the fast food restaurant through a very factual and informative text. He focuses on explaining the birth and growth of the fast food chains. He explains how it first started off as a hot dog cart that became a chain through Carl N. Karcher, but the actual food chain restaurant began with the McDonald brothers opening the first successful fast food restaurant. Every time a new restaurant is built scariness is felt everywhere, the thought of whether or not this new restaurant will cause other to shut down. As soon as McDonalds opened, other restaurants like Burger King and Taco Bell opened up and competition erupted. Everyone wanted to make money, many will look for different ways and in different people to make money, for this reason many of the fast food restaurants target little kids. The thought is that little kids bring in adults which brings in money. The second way is to hire teenagers. Teenagers are willing to work for low wages as long as they have a job and for this reason many restaurants prefer to hire them. besides targeting the youth, many look for different ways to advertise their products. Fast food companies are now paying to have their advertisements posted in schools and some beverage companies sponsor a team to make money. The government even offers help to the restaurants even if the restaurants are being unfair to the employees. The wages have no decreased by a 30% and yet the government hardly does anything, there are unions for these employees but every time that the employee or ex-employee are about to win the case, the restaurant shuts down in order not to lose. Schlosser explains how due to these bad treatments the majority of the robberies that happen in fast food restaurants tend to be from behalf of employees or ex-employees. the majority that works in the restaurants do not make enough money to support a family and at times have to take 2 jobs, some students lose track of school due to their jobs. Some of the employees only depend on tips to make a living or at least to be able to buy food. Schlosser writes of these situations in a factual anecdotal way that explains the rise of the restaurants and the bad and good things about it.
Tone: Informative
Rhetorical Terms:Hyperbole:"strike me dead"
Personification: "America's fast food restaurants are now more attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores..."
imagery: "The bodies lay in an empty restaurant as burglar alarms rang, game lights flashed, a vacuum cleaner ran, and Chuck E. Cheese mechanical animals continued to perform children's songs."
Imagery: "Instead of a new flag being raised, a big new plastic sign goes up."
imagery: "the shakes and sodas begin as syrup."
Discussion Questions: Clarification: How does employees and managers view the paycheck as?
Application: How does does low payment affect poor families?
Style: Does Eric's informative book about fast food make a person not want to work there?
Quotation:"find another job; move on"