Dear Dads: Save Your Sons
After Reading "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons" by Christopher N. Bacorn, found on page 558 in your Evergreen text, answer the following questions.
1.) At both the beginning and end of this persuasive essay, Bacorn describes a mother and her 15-year-old son. Why does he focus on their story? Would the argument be as effective if he had begun with paragraph 4 and ended with paragraph 10?
2.) The author does not press to see the angry 15-year-old boy again, claiming that professional counseling for adolescent boys is a waste of time. What is your opinion about his decision?
Bacorn uses the mother and her son in his story, “Dear Dads: Save Your Sons,” to provide a fact about his story, also to entice the readers to keep on reading his story. If the story began with paragraph 4, it would not be as persuasive. It does not lead with a great argument. If the story ended with paragraph 10, it does not give a solution to the problem it in the story.
My opinion about counseling the 15-year-old boy, I don’t agree that it’s a waste of time. I believe the counselor gave the mother some options for the boy to interact with other male figures. I don’t think he means to brush the boy off, but with a boy that already has a mind set of what he wants to do with his time; it would probably be hard for counseling to even help him. I think if he pushed the subject of counseling it would make the boy rebel even more, therefore increasing his bad
1.) At both the beginning and end of this persuasive essay, Bacorn describes a mother and her 15-year-old son. Why does he focus on their story? Would the argument be as effective if he had begun with paragraph 4 and ended with paragraph 10?
2.) The author does not press to see the angry 15-year-old boy again, claiming that professional counseling for adolescent boys is a waste of time. What is your opinion about his decision?
Bacorn uses the mother and her son in his story, “Dear Dads: Save Your Sons,” to provide a fact about his story, also to entice the readers to keep on reading his story. If the story began with paragraph 4, it would not be as persuasive. It does not lead with a great argument. If the story ended with paragraph 10, it does not give a solution to the problem it in the story.
My opinion about counseling the 15-year-old boy, I don’t agree that it’s a waste of time. I believe the counselor gave the mother some options for the boy to interact with other male figures. I don’t think he means to brush the boy off, but with a boy that already has a mind set of what he wants to do with his time; it would probably be hard for counseling to even help him. I think if he pushed the subject of counseling it would make the boy rebel even more, therefore increasing his bad