Getting Out Of "Period 8"

Summary on the Book:

Paul Baum, since his freshman year, has always told the truth. He learned that no matter what, he had to tell the truth. But after breaking up with his girlfriend Hannah and attending a class with his teacher Mr. Logsdon in which students can express their feelings, he discovers that sometimes the truth can cause problems, and not just minor ones. But after people start telling the truth, Paul, Hannah, and others are being pursued by the police. For what? They don't know. Or do they? The only thing they know is that they can't go to jail. Little do they know that what lies ahead, what they are going to find out,  they might already know. But what could it be though?


Note and Notice:

One signpost in which I want to talk about is a Memory Moment. If you DON'T know what a Memory Moment is when you are reading and the author interrupts the action to tell you a memory. After Paul find out what telling the truth can do, he recalls when him and Hannah broke up. This might be important to him because he might still like Hannah. It might also be important because in what he discovered, he can probably get something out of it. But I don't think that the theme will come up this early in the book.

Workers' Rights: My Thoughts

• While I was reading "Fight For Fair Treatment of Workers: Don't Buy Nike",  I found that the argument was that workers weren't getting paid enough and were mistreated. They were paid only $1.25 a DAY. That's only 2 meals a day of chicken, beans, and rice. I think that that's unfair because you really can't provide for your family with that kind of paying job. Plus if you're children or even you have medical problems, that's even MORE money. Like seriously, I really learned that Nike can give contracts to LeBron James and Tiger Woods worth millions of dollars, but can't provide for workers. That's really upsetting to me.
    
  After reading "The Sweatshop",  I had notice that the argument is that the narrator is struggling to keep herself focus on her job. The narrator considers themselves as a machine working in a factory. They also describe themselves as not having feeling and thoughts. They were both different from one another because in the poem it's someone expressing themselves about workers and in the article it's basic facts about a companies work environment. After reading the articles and then the poem I could connect to both of them.