Michael Saliba Megan Marino English 122 11/12/17 Journal: Importance of Analysis The article, "Some Lessons From the Assembly Line" by Andrew Braaksma is about the author spending his summers working in an automotive factory in Detroit while on summer vacation from the University of Michigan. He tells the story of the long 12-hour days spent doing blue collar work with minimal job security or room for promotion. The intent of the authors claim is to instill in the reader the importance of a good education in modern America. The author first addresses this claim in the first paragraph of the paper where he differentiates making subassemblies for cars in a factory to writing a paper on French Literature. He goes on in the next paragraph to state that he has been working as a temp in these factories since he had graduated high school and the transition from school to blue collar work, “never gets any easier.” He talks whimsically of “the lush campus and cavernous lecture halls of college
