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Prompt 1: When this story was written, what kind of societal conversation…

- - - - Could have brainwashed the narrator to do good because if he did his job he gets rewarded but if not he gets nothing
        
        The Narrator also barely says any words only when he is spoken to by Mr. Nordstrom but the majority of the time he can't speak English because of his job which shows the bad conditions of working in his job and restriction of being able to speak freely because the organization wants him to maintain his role
        
        Saunders wanted the Narrator to not have a lot of lines but more so of having longer sentences when the audience looks at the Narrators point of view based on his mind to show what he thought and felt
        
        The narrator doesn't really show emotion throughout the story. This could be another types of dystopian aspect because Saunders wanted to show that workers were discouraged to express any discontent with their job
      - Tone of Mr. Nordstrom when he explains how he is the one that provides them with food makes Mr Nordstrom fearful
        
        When Nordstrom responds to the narrator's fax he has an angry tone because of the short sentences. This evidence shows that he doesn't care about Janet trying to improve he really wants to get rid of her
    - - Mr. Nordstrom uses similies to compare Janet to horrible things
        
        "because the employee no longer has use-value; therefore, redundancy has a more immediate connection to waste than the experience of being fired." (Page 3). Evidence from outside source to explain how Janet is trash or useless in Mr. Nordstrom's view
        
        Possibly being compared to trash is a simile to show that those in the working class were treated poorly
        
        Job insecurity was a big thing in Pastoralia because the narrator and Janet were already poor to begin with so working as cave people was their best shot at making money to support their families
        
        The image of Cole and his parents treating the Narrator and Janet horribly shows that consumers treat those with low status jobs badly (Page 11)
        
        The fake goats were satriarical because it shows the flaws of working conditions for the working class
        
        Saunders wanted to show satire here to emphasize that those in power in the workplace that they can control everything and can subject their employees to inhumane things based on their performance
        
        When Nordstrom is mad about things not going the way it should for the company he get mad and the length of his sentences are really short.
        
        But when Mr. Nordstrom talks to the Narrator about how he did a good job in telling the truth in the report towards the end of the story, the length of his sentences was because he was happy that Janet is now gone
        
        Saunders wanted to make the length of the sentences to be drastically different based on the mood of Nordstrom to show how in the workplace they were happy if their employees did what they are supposed to do as opposed when they defy them leaving them to be angry. Performance of the employee is all that matters
        
        Mr. Nordstrom can be considered the antagonist in Pastoralia because he is someone who has the authority to either give the Narrator and Janet food and it's cruel when he doesn't give them goat or a fake goat and makes them eat crackers
        
        Saunders could be using pathos for this because he wants the audience to dislike Nordstrom because of how he is a horrible boss and how he treats the Narrator and Janet
        
        Instead of having exclamation points to express his anger, Nordstrom uses questions or ask short questions. Saunders used this to give a false impression that Nordstrom doesn't see this as a big deal when it is. To relate to the real world it is obvious when a boss expresses anger at an employee they will most likely get fired but they don't want to make it obvious so that will fire them when they least expect it
      - Saunders uses repetition of the phrase old gal, "not to mention an old gal, not to mention an old gal with so many years of experience" to show that Mr. Nordstrom is nitpicking on her age and really wants her gone. During this time companies wanted to have young workers who would work efficiently
    - - If the story was told by Mr. Nordstrom's point of view corporate control would be seen as a good thing instead of a bad thing
      - The narrator talked about a past event in Page 5 so that we know how he feels when Janet doesn't do her job. An example of POV and flashback could possibly be a rhetorical device
        
        Also another reason why they have the story be told on the narrator's POV is to feel sympathetic towards those that are in the working class
        
        Getting background info about the Narrator's situation and Janet's shows that working class families struggled a lot during the 1990s
        
        Saunders rhetoric technique could be pathos because it is all about appealing to the emotions which is sympathy towards the Narrator and Janet
- - - - This is an example of dystopia genre convention because the organization prevents them from acting out of character
        
        Saunders wanted to compare this part in Pastoralia to real life on how employee's needs weren't considered but had to place a forced emotion of being perfect or happy to keep customers happy and the reputation of the workplace good
- - - - The setting usually takes place in the cave and barely in the outside world
        
        Saunders wanted to show that workers felt that they are confined to their job or that they don't have any other choice but to stick with their job
- - - - Use irony to show that even though the organization cares about the work the employees do customers seem not to care enough to not visit which is ironic on Page 3 and other pages.
        
        American Dream was questioned possibly because of the horrible working conditions
        
        Saunders used repetition of how people wouldn't poke in their heads to show how society didn't care for things that weren't interesting and if organizations lost popularity or experience a decrease in customers then they most likely got rid of workers especially those that have low jobs because they are easier to dispose
- - - - This example is a metaphor
- - - - "and job loss or who have seen erosion in their job quality are likely to be less optimistic about the American Dream" (Page 4) possibly Janet
        
        "research in the 1970s and 1980s found that a majority of Americans were optimistic about the ability to succeed in the United States" so in the story it fits the idea that in the 1990s people didn't have faith or believed in the American dream like Janet
        
        "economic pessimism" (page 17) this is the type of attitude that Americans had in the early 1990s had
        
        I think this is how Janet felt when she was working as a cave woman
        
        Saunders could have made Janet a comic relief because her dialogue is filled with curse words and she doesn't take her job seriously. This could be something to ease the audience in this time period that despite going through a hard time they can make the situation of horrible work conditions light-hearted
        
        For the quote about the 1970s-1980s this during the 1990s the people in America were going through a crisis of believing on the American Dream or giving up on it
        
        "witnessed not only a rise in bad jobs with low wages and no benefits but also a decline in good jobs that provide decent wages and benefits" (Page 2, Representing Worker Interests) this is the fear that people had in America
        
        In Pastoralia Janet and the Narrator barely had any benefits it was the goat but there was a time when the Narrator got a really good reward for being honest about Janet