Michael Grey Too Young Analysis
Published in Insight Publications, Michael Grey’s opinion piece ‘Too Young, Too Soon’ posted in 2010, depicts the ‘hazardous and ‘reckless’ nature of parents who encourage their children to partake in ‘death-defying feats’. Solo circumnavigation in recent years has become very popular for young people, Grey arguing that this interest is nothing more than a plight for a ‘brief flash of publicity’.
Grey’s opening sentence concisely expresses his opinion on this issue, affirming that this ‘alarmingly popular’ interest by teens should not be encouraged by ‘eager’ parents. An attacking tone is adopted by Grey in the first paragraph whilst attacking parents ‘who put the lives of their children at risk’ saying they ‘are needlessly endangering their children’s life’. The further inclusion of a rhetorical question, asking why parents put their children’s life at risk ‘merely to gain a flash of publicity’ makes a mockery of ‘such parents’ attitudes whilst appealing to the reader’s sense of family in the hope they will see they dangers behind their actions of mindless …show more content…
Continuing, Grey rebuts people opposed to his opinion by including that he is all for ‘courageous feats’ but with due training and maturity. This inclusion allows the readers to understand that Grey is in fact all for thrill seeking, but not when young people are putting themselves at risk without the adequate training. This allows the readers to see a side on reasonability in Grey and that his opinion I is not bias in regard to his opinion of solo circumnavigation.
Ending his piece, Grey argues that it is ‘us’ that will have to pay for when these ‘reckless’ teens require a rescue operation due to their ‘inexperience’. Inclusive language is used such as ‘we’ and ‘us’ to appeal to the reader’s hip pocket. This last argument provokes a sense of anger in the readers, that they will have to pay for such exhibitions due to young people’s
Grey’s opening sentence concisely expresses his opinion on this issue, affirming that this ‘alarmingly popular’ interest by teens should not be encouraged by ‘eager’ parents. An attacking tone is adopted by Grey in the first paragraph whilst attacking parents ‘who put the lives of their children at risk’ saying they ‘are needlessly endangering their children’s life’. The further inclusion of a rhetorical question, asking why parents put their children’s life at risk ‘merely to gain a flash of publicity’ makes a mockery of ‘such parents’ attitudes whilst appealing to the reader’s sense of family in the hope they will see they dangers behind their actions of mindless …show more content…
Continuing, Grey rebuts people opposed to his opinion by including that he is all for ‘courageous feats’ but with due training and maturity. This inclusion allows the readers to understand that Grey is in fact all for thrill seeking, but not when young people are putting themselves at risk without the adequate training. This allows the readers to see a side on reasonability in Grey and that his opinion I is not bias in regard to his opinion of solo circumnavigation.
Ending his piece, Grey argues that it is ‘us’ that will have to pay for when these ‘reckless’ teens require a rescue operation due to their ‘inexperience’. Inclusive language is used such as ‘we’ and ‘us’ to appeal to the reader’s hip pocket. This last argument provokes a sense of anger in the readers, that they will have to pay for such exhibitions due to young people’s