Monday, September 19, 2011

In Class Assignment

                  Behind the Counter in Fast Food Nation gives you the perspective of a teenage worker in a fast food chain. The fry cooks who flip patties all day or the cashier who says you want fries with that all day.  As the chapter starts it foreshadows what it is going to elaborate on. When Colorado Springs was a gold mine town, they had legitimate thieves and bandits now they only have corporations which basically fulfill the same role. The old dirt road is where all the teens would go and have parties with a nice view of the city and sky. The kids we're enjoying life and not knowing what they're going to do. Mcdonalds, Wendy's, Burger King and so on are their modern day thiefs. The teenagers are being short changed because they are inexperienced and don't know what they're doing so they follow orders very well and they don't mind getting payed a small amount, they just want to get payed, naive if you will. The town has changed from an old time place to a town that one half has history and the other half has fast food.