Trading Places...Classes

In class we started watching the movie "Trading Places". I have never seen or even heard of this movie before, but from the start of it, it seems very interesting. Eddie Murphy's character is by far my favorite. I liked when he was first given the house and the way he reacted was to steal anything that he could make money off of. He just could not figure out why the rich men were giving him all those nice things. It like he was expecting them to call the cops on him again.

In the time of the movie it seemed like there was only a high class and a low class. The is another thing we talked about and one thing i found weird was that the high class and the low class did not list any jobs. Once I thought about it a little I realized that the middle class is sometimes the only ones working. Most of the high class does not have to work because they either inherit their money, or do the smallest thing and make millions. The man who invented the plastic piece on the end of a shoe string made so much money off that piece of plastic. All he had to do was think of the simplest thing and now he doesn't really have to do anything.

The middle class on the other hand get the dirty jobs such as teaching, nursing, or managing businesses. I would have to say though, it feels good to know that the money was earned by teaching the youth, helping to heal the sick, or operating a business and possible offering other jobs.