In the article, “Two Jobs at Sugar Factor, and a Lump in the Throat,” the writer does give us a little more than Robert Shelton’s personal history. She tells us a little about the history of the sugar factory and its status before proceeding to summarize Robert Shelton’s work history and his addition to the factory. The writer starts the narrative of Robert Shelton’s life by starting with where he grew up, and then going on to describe the evolution of his work history. The writer works primarily around Robert Shelton’s career as opposed to his personal life and experiences since those tie in more directly to the factory and its current events.

The nut graf of the article is the seventh paragraph at the bottom of the first page of the article. I feel that the writer feels that even though a job at the sugar factor was not glamourous, since she notes the “clumps [of sugar] at least a decade old” on one of the metal beams, she feels that the workers there had a rich experience in that people such as Robert Shelton still have fond memories of working there and have built relationships with their supervisors and coworkers.