Question

Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. The restaurant opens for business at seven o’clock, and for the next hour or so, Elisa and the manager hold down the fort, handling all the orders. As the place starts to get busy, other employees arrive. Elisa works behind the counter. She takes orders and hands food to customers from breakfast through lunch. When she finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out. She comes through the front door, flops onto the living room couch, and turns on the TV. And the next morning she gets up at 5:15 again and starts the same routine.How does the description of Elisa’s daily routine support the author’s claim that the fast food industry seeks out teenage employees?A) It provides anecdotal evidence of a teenage fast food employee living like an adult.B) It provides analogical evidence to compare the efficiency of teenagers and adults.C) It provides statistical evidence of what an average fast food employee experiences.D) It provides testimonial evidence to describe employee abuse in the fast food industry.

Answer 1

Answer:

I would say that the description of Elisa's daily routine supports the author's claim that the fast food industry seeks out teenage employees by providing anecdotal evidence of a teenage fast food employee living like an adult. The correct answer is A.

Explanation:

After reading this excerpt from Fast Food Nation where the author shows how is the daily routine of Elisa, we can picture how her life is like the one of an adult's, but she's only a teenager. She wakes up very early in the morning, she stands hours behind the counter, she comes and goes after the client's needs and, at the end of the day, her feet hurt, she feels tired as if she was an old person. Elisa has a full time job, it is not what she feels passionate about, and her body aches, and that supports the idea of the author that fast food industry seeks out teenage employees that end up living like adults. The author presents in this text anecdotal evidence for the main claim.

Answer 2

Answer:

The description of Elisa’s daily routine supports the author’s claim that the fast-food industry seeks out teenage employees because It provides anecdotal evidence of a teenage fast-food employee living like an adult.

Explanation:

This excerpt from Fast Food Nation tells the personal experience of a person working in the Fast Food chain industry, and how demanding and exhausting all the labor is, it asks hard work coming from the teenagers that they employ but at the same time they have the correct amount of energy to cope with all that needs to be done, even when it makes them act more like an adult at the end of the day.