Ashley Curtis's application for employment plays with the format of an application to be a barista. The applicant, Pendleton Roberts, is a 16 year-old girl from Minnesota who has taken a break from High school and wants to work. The reason she is not in school is because the pressure was too much for her and she ended up slitting her wrists with a box cutter.
While the voice of the main character comes through in the piece, there are some technical points that ought to be addressed. An application for a position like this would likely be hand-written, and I think that doing so would highlight the intentions of this piece. At the same time, this character would be required by law to attend school, even if only some form of alternative school. If she has been placed on a prolonged suspension for her behavior, I wonder what she is supposed to be doing with her time, and what her family thinks.
I'd like to know more about her references. Is it, in fact, okay to contact them? Is the physician a family physician, someone she is seeing for psychological reasons? As far as Lewis Rogers is concerned, I think a male nurse is just called a nurse.
It might be interesting for her to fill out several applications over a prolonged period of time. The frequent rejection could finally lead her to this last-ditch effort. She seems like a stressed person, but ultimately determined based on all of her extra-curriculars. There is definitely room to explore here. Go nuts.
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