Orientation of the OppressedAny story can contain many clues and ideas about information from the time period in which it is written. To find information, we must look beyond the text and the words we carefully read. There are those in a society who study every piece of literature in this way. These select few Marxists investigate why our lower classes are so oppressed compared to the upper and middle classes, why the lower classes are attracted to these non-basic developmental jobs, and many other similar questions. “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco compiles the symbolic value of the meaning of Marxism and the information that can be derived from history. In this short story, the lower working class characters are involved in a business where every aspect is outside the world. Some of these supernatural standards are the reasons why they can potentially be abandoned. For example, while the new employee is going through orientation, his co-worker says, “No personal phone calls are allowed. However, we do allow emergencies. If you need to make an emergency phone call, ask your supervisor first” (33). The colleague goes on to state: “If you make an emergency call without asking permission, you risk being released” (33). Now, regardless of the circumstances, regardless of current employment, there would be no reason why an employee would be required to follow such a process to respond to an urgent phone call. Further in this orientation, the colleague says bluntly: “Feel free to ask questions. Ask too many questions and you risk being let go” (33). These workers will not have the right to ask unlimited questions even if it revolves around their professional work. This withholding is just unbearable in my mind because I would feel stuck between doing the assignment incorrectly or being fired for asking what the right way to do it is. Finally, the new employee