Marina Mendes Lemos de Oliveira
Ekaterina Gay / Laura Waiss
ENG 109 MVA
June 12, 2017
New Generation and New Challenges
The New York Times columnist David Brooks explores in the article “Is Not About You” some crucial issues for graduating students launched into the job market with many problems and obstacles to overcome. The author arguments that the students are taught to follow a lifestyle after graduation far away from the real situation that they will face in the future. Brooks claims that young people constantly hear from eldest people that they should enjoy their life, work with something that gives them pleasure, and follow their dreams and passions. However, the real life is not uncomplicated like that. These students who are used to have a very well-structured life will enter in a competitive job market that will require them skills never taught before. Furthermore, most of them will not achieve their dreams or do what the previous generation did, like get married soon and build a family, or buy a …show more content…
On one hand, the American culture says to youngers to follow their passion and to live their lives intensively, and on the other hand, the real world requires them to give more efforts and knowledge to achieve the basic goals, like a job and a reasonable life. The decision-making process will influence their way of life for many years ahead. Consolidating career, commitments, feelings, and pleasure are too many issues for such young people. Brooks stablishes a relationship with the readers using too many appeals of pathos. He tried to touch the readers’ feeling. For example, when he finishes his article with the sentence “The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself”. I understood that he claims people to pursue their happiness than pursue a comfortable position in the real world, which is a desire of many students in his
Ekaterina Gay / Laura Waiss
ENG 109 MVA
June 12, 2017
New Generation and New Challenges
The New York Times columnist David Brooks explores in the article “Is Not About You” some crucial issues for graduating students launched into the job market with many problems and obstacles to overcome. The author arguments that the students are taught to follow a lifestyle after graduation far away from the real situation that they will face in the future. Brooks claims that young people constantly hear from eldest people that they should enjoy their life, work with something that gives them pleasure, and follow their dreams and passions. However, the real life is not uncomplicated like that. These students who are used to have a very well-structured life will enter in a competitive job market that will require them skills never taught before. Furthermore, most of them will not achieve their dreams or do what the previous generation did, like get married soon and build a family, or buy a …show more content…
On one hand, the American culture says to youngers to follow their passion and to live their lives intensively, and on the other hand, the real world requires them to give more efforts and knowledge to achieve the basic goals, like a job and a reasonable life. The decision-making process will influence their way of life for many years ahead. Consolidating career, commitments, feelings, and pleasure are too many issues for such young people. Brooks stablishes a relationship with the readers using too many appeals of pathos. He tried to touch the readers’ feeling. For example, when he finishes his article with the sentence “The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself”. I understood that he claims people to pursue their happiness than pursue a comfortable position in the real world, which is a desire of many students in his