4/19/10

The excerpt from the book called Nickel and Dimed really grasped all of the elements that need to be incorporated into my final ethnography. The excerpt was very interesting to read since the author wrote it in first person about how she reflects on the life of struggling lower class American who is working multiple jobs.

The excerpt really incorporated a lot of background information about the jobs she had worked and really gave you an image of how she lived her life. The author incorporated a few interviews throughout the book, but most importantly provided the reader with many observations. She talked about each job individually and also talked about how she was doing this all to help her family who had suffered the worst. She also provided the audience with some very important background research that showed statistics on average wages for people in her town was well as the nation. Her excerpt did not just included the information she had observed but she combined the observations and interviews so that it flowed into one well written ethnography which is what I will need to keep in mind when writing my final ethnography.