Short Takes - Stop Ordering Me Around

1.

(1) The narrator is complaining about the customers in the restaurant where she works for, and she is a little impatient, too.

(2) From paragraph 5 to paragraph 12, Stacey Wilkins expressed her feelings after being insulted by a male customer. As she drove home, Wilkins was crying and at her breaking point and tired of being a waitress. She thought that most people eat in the restaurant have no respect to the servers at all.

(3) I think they unify this essay well.

(4) The tone of Wilkins’ essay is constant because Stacey Wilkins narrated this essay with many of her own working experiences and observation. This can make the readers understand her circumstances and realize how rude as well as insolent people treat the servers in the restaurant.

2.

(1) It started from paragraph 5. Wilkins began telling how most people act when they are eating in the restaurant.

(2) I think the general part gets the most emphasis.

3. The problem in this essay is some customers in the restaurant see themselves in a position far superior to the servers. The solution that the writer provided is if people could look at themselves from a different perspective; they might see how wrong and impolite they are.

4. I haven’t had this kind of experience so far and I don’t know weather my friends have this kind of experience or not, either. 

5. I think Stacey Wilkins’ thesis is every waiter and waitress deserves respect. I found Wilkins’ placement in this essay is effective because she begins this essay with her experience then speaks to the rude customers, and ends up with the dreams of hers as well as other fellow workers.