Book Portfolio Quarter 3: Nickel and Dimmed

Nickel and Dimmed was a good illustration about how every day people have to live and should be read by anyone that is thinking life is easy. Nickel and Dimmed By: Barbara Ehrenreich, published in 2001. Barbara went and played the role as a single girl, poor to see if they could survive of low wage jobs and welfare. She soon finds out that there is a lot of work if you are short on money; she struggles to make it by. I think that you should not judge people and treat everyone the same, because we all work the same amount weither one pays more than the other. The significance of this theme would be, you could help understand people who have to go through being poor and give them more respect.
The theme would be not to judge a book by its cover; we all are equal and work just as hard. For example there is a part in the book where Barbara has to apply for a lot of low wage job and sees the long process that you have to do. Another example would be, she starts to bond with the other low wage co-workers and actually likes them even though they have low wages to. The last example would be throughout the whole book she despises all of her managers, every single one. The significance of the book would be that everyone is the same and that managers and bosses inside of one job can be just as difficult as the other.
The historical context that I would choose out of this book would be that, people used to treat the slaves and others like them poorly. One example would be that they used to get beat for things that they did wrong though a days work for them would probably be a years work from what the person beating them does. Another example is that they got paid with food and with housing if that and the people beating them would actually get paid. Also the slaves had no rights and they did way more work then the settlers. The significance of theme for history would be that you can see how the slaves had felt compared to the others, poorly.
The theme would have a huge impact if only everyone would do what Barbara did and take the spot of someone else in this situation. It’s not a very well position to be in, treated like everyone else is better than you, it can’t be right. The significance of the theme in the book is that, she doesn’t know what people that are poor have to live through and how hard there life is. The significance of the theme in history is that people without money were treated horrible for example the slaves. The book could change people who judge others by what they make, it could change there life dramatically. With understanding this theme it would be important because why would you have the right to judge someone just by what they look like, make as a salary, or wear.