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Helicopter Parents Are To Blame By Nick Gillespie

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Parents nowadays are way overprotective and excessively involved in their children's lives. They give off the impression that they don't want their children to gain experience from their own blunders; instead, parents want the youngster to wrap their hand around their finger because then they're able to guide and lead them throughout life. Inevitably, the control and every decision in a child's life is placed in the hands of their parents, whom the author of the essay "Millennials Are Selfish and Entitled, and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame," Nick Gillespie, describes to us as "helicopter parents." Gillespie's objective when composing this essay is to expose the negative effects of "helicopter" parenting and how it is possibly destroying the …show more content…

He has used logos and pathos for augmenting and imposing his views on the reader that why the recent generation is turning into the "self-absorbed little monsters." The intended audiences are the parents who have adopted this style of parenting. In the article, he is saying that younger generation of millennials today are selfish, and that this is the reason why older people don't like them, such as, "65% of adults think of the current generation as "entitled"(Gillespie). To support his views and claims, he has provided so many studies including polls, so that the reader would actually believe what he's saying. He has also used personal phrases and quotes to support the other claims made by him, this shows the persuasive and dominant author he is trying to …show more content…

Due to this nature of tone, ethos could barely be found by anyone and it would be hard to convince the audience despite the use of appeals in the article.
Gillespie's way of presenting the argument lacked professionalism, he should be careful about it as he's an author who writes for the newspaper. It seemed like the article was to scold the millennials, and the tone was both aggressive and passive. The rhetorical devices implemented in the article could be seen but rather than supporting his claims, people would criticize it. The logical information and facts used by him to supplement the views looks biased, the other's ideas or thoughts were not stated in the article, as that might make him lose his argument.
Overall, the author's purpose was clear that he did not want the generation to get more spoiled than this and he could have presented his argument very nicely but due to the manipulative tone, people would most likely ignore the argument and would focus more on

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