Does the writer give us more than Robert Shelton’s personal history?

The  author gave just enough history, it sort of sets up what the story is about and how Shelton came about working at the factory.

Describe the narrative of this profile, the arc of the story.

The narrative is of Shelton’s history and the history behind the sugar factory. Talks of his experience working there and how he feels with its closing.

What do you think of the lead? Where is the nut graf?

I thought the lead was an anecdotal lead, giving us a brief story of what is was like working there. It described the conditions in which Shelton worked.

I think the nut is about four paragraphs down, where it starts “in a borough convulsed by change…”

What about the author’s point-of-view?

The author didn’t really put too much of her views into this, it was more looking at it through the eyes of Shelton.