“Friend or Foe” by Dean A. Meek”, the writer’s purpose of this essay was to relate the relationship with alcohol and with the addiction that impacted his life and analyzes how his addiction began and how it ended. He was trying to convey how bad it was if you have some vices which could not help the growth of your personality and how it will consume your being. (1)
The audience that he was aiming at were teen agers who at this stage of life there so much challenges that comes along the way and the peer pressures that you’re in but in his case it was through emotional experience that drives him to be an alcoholic. On the first paragraph he said “This was a feeling that I would carry with me through my teenage years, a feeling