Bronwen Hruska Raising The Ritalin Generation Analysis

I remember the day when my little cousin first started kindergarten and from the first day till now my family and I hoped that she would be the “typical” school student. We crossed our fingers, held our breath, and prayed that her antsy self would succeed in school, without be thought that she had a type of attention disorder. Bronwen Hruska wrote, “Raising the Ritalin Generation” New York Times, published on August 8, 2012. She explains the ups and downs that she on a personal level experienced throughout a time span of over a decade. Hruska builds the article with a multitude of facts about her and her son’s own experience dealing with the diagnosis of ADHD. She includes everything from opinions of the teachers and physicians to the effects of the drug Ritalin on her son. The article explains the causes and effects, as well as a medical perspective of the drug ritalin on children who …show more content…
Hruska is omnipresent when it comes to expressing her opinion about the situation. She wants the readers to look at this spiral from her point of view. Giving her own personal opinions in this article makes it more down to earth and connective with readers. Hruska concludes in her opinion, “But what I’ve found is that once you start looking for a problem, someone’s going to find one” (par.8). By using this quote she puts her own type of twist on her article by including her own personal discovery in life. Stating that a problem will be found if you start looking for it. “I also read through hundreds of online posts, though I stopped after a diatribe about a nation poisoning children’s developing brains” (par.13). In this segment Hruska links the appeal of a worried parent to her article. She lets the readers, mainly the parents, connect in a way where they could see themselves accomplishing the same acts as Hruska. Having a connection with the readers was a main goal that was accomplished Hruska’s