Summary Of Gary Althen's American Values And Assumption

In the article, “American Values and Assumptions”, Gary Althen notes that people who grow up in the same culture share their ideas and beliefs most of the time. They agree, not always, with each other. Each culture has its own values and assumptions. The meaning of culture can be a group of values and assumptions that complain with each other to form a certain people comprehensions and link it to the world around them. In Althen’s article, he discusses individualism, privacy, equality, informality, competition, and time about the American culture. In American culture, the most important thing is to understand their individualism. Althen also believes that Americans need a time to be alone which called privacy. Moreover, the equality value that

The writer uses lexical repetition, which means that they are many repeated words in the article, to attract the reader’s attention to the important ideas of the article. The author use various word repetition such as, “money”, “American”, and “Values and Assumptions.” The purpose of repetition is to make the writing clear and cohesive. Also, to emphasize the point throughout the essay and meet the requirements of it. Therefore, the author sometimes but sentences between commas to show us the important of this sentence or the opposite which you can ignore this sentence. For example, in paragraph 6 line 3, when the mother said, “ Or, you could save your money, and sometime later…” The author wants us to recognize how the mother treats her son by telling him to save his money and but what he want, she is not going to buy it for him. He wants us to understand how American makes their children responsible for everything they need even for silly things like juice. The last thing is that Althen uses the quotation marks in the story of the boy, paragraph 6, which consider a direct speech to make the story more effective so we can imagine what is the character of the mother which we’ll know it by her own