In the article “Almost Famous: Teens and Online Videos”, Gay Norton Edelman talks about teenagers broadcasting their premeditated, irrational behaviors on the Internet and discusses the reasons for this trend. The purpose of the article is to indirectly educate teenagers about how ludicrous it is to publicize misconduct in cyber space and to stop posting videos of their dreadful comportment online. She states that the act of adolescents advertising irresponsible or scandalous exploits online, appalls and bewilders most adults. Edelman supposes that this is done for provisional fame and is a result of youngsters trying to become carbon copies of affluent superstars, who have earned their adulation but on a miniature scale. Adolescents not in
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Her informal and straightforward style allows readers of all ages to easily understand the message being conveyed. A parent can read the essay and understand that she is criticizing the act of teenagers posting their dreadful behavior online and so can a teenager. Her overall casual style and diction invites any reader to start reading and to continue reading. Despite the fact that she disapproves of this behavior, the reader can infer that her tone throughout the entire essay is a satirical tone and not a critical tone. Her tone is satirical because, she is criticizing with humor and is aiming to persuade teenage readers to refrain from advertising their awful behavior online. With the utilization of rhetorical questions she has made successful attempts to use reverse psychology on her teenage readers. In paragraph 6 she discusses that some teenagers now feel as though aiming for notoriety is an easier alternative to aiming for honor, and goes on to say “The payoff is real: Cheerleaders and jocks who used to ignore you now stop to ask, “Was that your video I saw?” She employs a satirical tone in this sentence, which is created by saying “The payoff is real” this is effective in allowing teenagers to see how comical it is to go to such extremes, all in the name of being noticed by the popular children for a couple of seconds,
Her informal and straightforward style allows readers of all ages to easily understand the message being conveyed. A parent can read the essay and understand that she is criticizing the act of teenagers posting their dreadful behavior online and so can a teenager. Her overall casual style and diction invites any reader to start reading and to continue reading. Despite the fact that she disapproves of this behavior, the reader can infer that her tone throughout the entire essay is a satirical tone and not a critical tone. Her tone is satirical because, she is criticizing with humor and is aiming to persuade teenage readers to refrain from advertising their awful behavior online. With the utilization of rhetorical questions she has made successful attempts to use reverse psychology on her teenage readers. In paragraph 6 she discusses that some teenagers now feel as though aiming for notoriety is an easier alternative to aiming for honor, and goes on to say “The payoff is real: Cheerleaders and jocks who used to ignore you now stop to ask, “Was that your video I saw?” She employs a satirical tone in this sentence, which is created by saying “The payoff is real” this is effective in allowing teenagers to see how comical it is to go to such extremes, all in the name of being noticed by the popular children for a couple of seconds,