The Go-Nowhere Generation

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Yuriy Ivanov ENGL 1302 04/02/20112 Randall Watson Rhetorical Analysis Essey #1 The Go-Nowhere Generation By Todds G. Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz In this essay I am going to do a rhetorical analysis. Rhetorical analysis is a form of critisism (or close reading) that employs the principles of rethoric to examine the interactions between a text , an author, and an audience. In this work I have to identify rhetorical elements or componetns such as: author's subject and thesis, their purpose and audience, aouthor's persona and ethos. If present, I will identify their use of authoritative testimony and analogy. First, the subject of an essey is a problem of American young generation, which author introduces by the title of an essey « To Go-Nowhere Generation». Author's main point of an essay which we call thesis shows up in a very first sentance: «Americans are supposed to be mobile and even pushy». In my opinion there are two author's pupposes to teach and to move young generation by providing statistics and facts about tennage's life in early 1980 and 2008. Author is trying to move young generation. For example: Maybe it is time to yank out the power cords, pump up the flat bicycle tires or even reopen Route 66 – whatever it takes to get our kids back on the road. Author wants to delight how it was before. In the end of the article author asking a question, “ Do we really want to turn into a country where young Americans can’t even the courage of Tom Joad? By this, author makes think about America's future. To Go Nowhere Generation was published in the New York Times, so we can say that the New York Times readers are an audience. But general audience is a young American generation, generation «Y». Generation «Y» is a people rasied during the recession. Author addressed this article to all people around the USA, and who think that

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