Monday, July 13, 2009

The Wal-Martian's

Ok, so I really like the first paragarph, but I am really having a hard time with the next few. I know what my main points need to be, but I am not doing the best with how to develop them. That is why there is only the main point and not much analyisis going on. Any help that can be given on this would be great. Thanks!!!

The year is 4004. The world has been overrun by a newly discovered creature that has been living among humankind for years; this creature is called the “Wal-Martian.” Supercenters are being built on top of supercenters, and the common people of earth no longer have anywhere to live in the hours of their lives that they are not being forced to work for the “Wal-Martian.” For years people suspected that there was something wrong with the happy smiley faces that Wal-Mart presented to them every day, and there was. These happy smiley faces were covering up the green, alien type creatures that lied underneath. This is the picture that the author, Barbara Enrenreich, paints in her article “Wal-Martian Invasion” of what could happen in the future if we continue to allow Wal-Mart to operate as it does now. Throughout the whole article Enrenreich plays on the fears and imagination of the people reading the article to try to move them to take action against the “Wal-Martian.”
The first thing that you see when you start to read an article is the title of it. For the title of Enrenreich article she chose “Wal-Martian Invasion.” Right off the bat Enrenreich uses imagery to create this image in the reader’s head of aliens coming to earth and invading what the earth people are trying to build.
One of the first things that Enrenreich touches on is the fact that the beginnings of Wal-Mart were very normal, almost too normal. Nothing that is truly human could ever really be that normal.
Enrenreich states how there is a 44% turnover rate in the “Wal-Martian” industry, and how that is unbelievable high. These “Wal-Martian’s” don’t even care about how many people they use and throw away in one year’s time.
On top of the high turnover rate the “Wal-Martian’s” care so little about their human employees that the employees will be locked inside of a store over night and not even be able to get medical care.