Ap Language Analysis Article

Analysis Article The writer of the article “Overprotective parents stifle growth”, Jane Brown a retired school principal, claims that parents are too protective of their children whilst the writer of “Reality Check”, Jack Lee, indicates that parents aren’t taking enough precaution with their children. The writers use different persuasive techniques to persuade their readers such as emotive writing. The tone that the writers use is pleading and the style of both pieces are simple. There is a picture placed between both articles and is used to show a similarity between the two articles. A technique used by Jane Brown is sarcasm throughout the article. She talks about how parents are trying to create “perfect” children and “protecting” them and “incidents” occurring at school, by specifically using these words the reader thinks that there really is no such thing as
Then the writer starts listing all the generalizations giving more and more reasons for the reader to be persuaded to their side of the opinion. Placed prominently on the page, the photograph positions the reader to immediately get a feel for what the articles are going to be about. Just by looking at the child curled up in wool we can tell that the articles have something to do with a concern to do with kids. The words written on the sign are “Handle with care” in capital letters is significant because the handle with care sticker is always placed on fragile items, in this case the child is the fragile item which links back to the two articles which relates in both cases in just how we should handle our children. The word “sook” is mainly used in Australia and NZ only and is a slang word for timid or cowardly. In Jane Browns article she is agreeing with the prompt that we are raising “sooks” and Jack Lee is opposing it saying we need to take more care for our children. In conclusion both articles had emotive language, they both used similar techniques and both had similar tones throughout the