This story was about a man who was being exploited by his employer. The story starts when a customer comes in to the store to pick up his shoes that he had left the day before to be repaired. When he got there the person hadn't gotten back with the shoes and so the employer was there trying to talk to the customer while they waited. But then the customer was getting mad because he was taking a long time. And when the customer was about to leave, the worker came in with his shoes. He explained why he was late and he tried to tell his employer that he just couldn't handle the job anymore. That he was getting tired more frequently. But the employer kept on telling him things and readings things to him about him staying with him. He was kind of influencing him to stay because he knew that the guy was the best shoe breaker in Paris. But the thing was that the worker didn't even knew how to read or write, so most of the time he didn't even knew what the employer was telling him.
This story relates to the theme of barriers because this guy wasn't able to progress due to him not knowing his rights. Not knowing how to read was a major barrier for him because he couldn't read about his rights with the employer. It was like he was tied to his employer. From this story I learned that we need to keep more people informed of their basic rights. A lot of them are uneducated and so they are exploited because of that. This story was sad to me because the worker had basically worked for the employer for a lot of time and most likely he had been exploited by him all of that time.
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